Breakfast at Tiffany's

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. 

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Voilà ma petite Amélie. Vous n'avez pas des os en verre. Vous pouvez vous cogner à la vie. Si vous laissez passer cette chance alors, avec le temps, c'est votre cœur qui va devenir aussi sec et cassant que mon squelette. Alors allez-y, nom d'un chien.

O, como diría en el doblaje,

Verá, mi pequeña Amelie. Usted no tiene lo huesos de cristal. Podrá soportar los golpes de la vida. Si deja pasar esta oportunidad, con el tiempo su corazón se irá volviendo frágil y seco como mi esqueleto. ¿A qué espera? Ande, vaya a por él

Parando el mundo

-¿Nunca has parado el mundo?
-¿Qué es parar el mundo?
-Parar el mundo es decidir conscientemente que vas a salir de él para mejorarte y mejorarlo. Para poder moverte y moverlo mejor.
»En ese tiempo debes intentar que nadie ni nada te cree problemas
»Alimentarte de buena literatura, de buen cine y, sobre todo, de la conversación de una única persona que te inspire en este mundo. ¿Y sabes qué...?
-¿Qué?-dije emocionado y fascinado.

-Luego el mundo te premia. El universo conspira a favor de los que lo mueven. Y ésos son los que lo paran. ¿Tú quieres mover el mundo o que te mueva?
-Moverlo- dije con seguridad - ¡Moverlo!
Él se unió a mí y comenzó a gritar conmigo: «Moverlo, moverlo».
Y todo lo que lo moveríamos... Parándolo...

El Alquimista

Sintió de repente que él podía contemplar el mundo como una pobre víctima de un ladrón o como un aventurero en busca de un tesoro.

"Soy un aventurero en busca de un tesoro", pensó, antes de que un inmenso cansancio le hiciera caer dormido... 

Hagamos un trato

Hagamos un trato:

Yo te llevo el desayuno a la cama. No digo una vez , digo todos los días de mi vida.

Fútbol, lo justo. Algún partidillo, poco más.

Y te prometo que jamás tendré tripa.

A cambio de eso, no te pido nada. Simplemente que estés conmigo.

Ese es el trato.

Y yo os digo a todos los chicos de mundo, os prometo, que las chicas no pedimos tanto... con mucho menos nos vale...

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A veces, ficción y realidad, no están tan lejos

Canta el pueblo su canción
Nada la puede detener
Ésta es la música del pueblo
Y no se deja someter

Si al latir tu corazón
Oyes el eco del tambor
Es que el futuro nacerá
Cuando salga el sol

Te unirás a nuestra causa
Ven y lucha junto a mi
Tras esta barricada
Hay un mañana que vivir

Si somos esclavos o libres
Depende de ti

Fairy tales

-Why does love have to be so hard, Dorota? All I've ever wanted is a simple fairy tale. Kate Middleton has it, and I have much shinier hair! [...]

-Don't despair, Miss Blair. Destiny is full of suprises.

You never know who you will encounter along the way. Who knows? Maybe fairy tales come true after all... X.O.X.O. Gossip Girl

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When words become reality

Lena had loved him for four long years. Not that he knew, of course. Men like Shay wouldn't even consider that they could be loved silently and unselfishly like that. It didn't make sense.

He probably assumed that Lena was fond of him, admired him, and might under the right circumstances be attracted to him. But if he thought of her at all, he might have assumed that she had a private life of her own. He would never have thought that this quiet, efficient assistant of his spent her entire life, both in and out of the office, thinking about him, trying to make his life easier and better, and in her dreams trying to share that life with him.

According to Maggie, Lena was not in love. She was suffering from an obsession, an infatuation. It wasn’t healthy for someone who was twenty-six to develop this kind of crush on a man who didn’t return it and wasn’t even aware of it.

The return journey, by Maeve Binchy

Cambios

When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientist crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying.

It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change that's up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again.

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