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Que si a ti te falta aire, yo invoco huracanes

Sara Búho

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Nothing would ever be the same from here on out and she did the bravest thing she’d ever done, she didn't run away.

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Una casa es el lugar donde uno es esperado.

Antonio Gala

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Cazador alto y tan bello

Como en la tierra no hay dos,

Se fue de caza una tarde

Por los montes del Señor.

Seguro llevaba el paso,

Listo el plomo, el corazón

Repicando, la cabeza

Erguida y dulce la voz.

Bajo el oro de la tarde

Tanto el cazador cazó,

Que finas lágrimas rojas

Se puso a llorar el sol...

Cuando volvía cantando

Suavemente a media voz

Desde un árbol, enroscada,

Una serpiente lo vio.

Iba a vengar a las aves,

Mas, tremendo, el cazador

Con hoja de firme acero

La cabeza le cortó.

Pero aguardándolo estaba

A muy pocos pasos yo...

Lo até con mi cabellera

Y dominé su furor.

Ya maniatado le dije:

—Pájaros matasteis vos,

Y voy a tomar venganza

Ahora que mío sois...

Mas no lo maté con armas,

Busqué una muerte peor:

¡Lo besé tan dulcemente

Que le partí el corazón!

        Envío

Cazador: si vas de caza

Por los montes del Señor,

Teme que pájaros venguen

Hondas heridas de amor.

Romance de la Venganza, Alfonsina Storni

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“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell.”

Educated, Tara Westover

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Yo sé que existo

porque tú me imaginas.

Soy alto porque tú me crees

alto, y limpio porque tú me miras

con buenos ojos,

con mirada limpia.

Tu pensamiento me hace

inteligente, y en tu sencilla

ternura, yo soy también sencillo

y bondadoso.

Pero si tú me olvidas

quedaré muerto sin que nadie

lo sepa. Verán viva

mi carne, pero será otro hombre

-oscuro, torpe, malo- el que la habita...

Muerte en el Olvido, Ángel González

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“I once adored her— that demands revenge.”

Don Carlos, Friedrich Schiller

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But she hadn’t been able to stop herself. She’d wanted – needed – to destroy it, to rebuke the sheer helplessness of the betrayal. She’d watched everything turn to smoky ashes with dry eyes, and she didn’t need any of those fired therapists to decode the message she was transmitting to the uncaring universe: you can’t hurt me more than I can hurt myself.

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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

I love thee to the level of every day’s

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith

Excerpt from sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Vuelvo a nacer cada vez que mi madre ríe a carcajadas.

Sara Búho

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each

I do not think that they will sing to me.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot

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Y que pobre diablo te conto la gran mentira,

De que el dinero no da jamás la felicidad,

Quien te lo conto, que diablo tan pobre seria,

O que poco te quería dar

Los Príncipes, Juan Carlos Aragon

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Nor does it mean I agree with him about… anything, or approve of what he does, or even want him around me ever again. But that doesn’t mean I won’t always love him, or who he once was to me, or who he could have been.

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Se llamará Lucha: será niña.

María Nieto

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To her, evidence of the earliest true civilization was a healed femur, a leg bone, which she held up before us in the lecture hall. She explained that such healings were never found in the remains of competitive, savage societies. There, clues of violence abounded: temples pierced by arrows, skulls crushed by clubs. But the healed femur showed that someone must have cared for the injured person-hunted on his behalf, brought him food, and served him at personal sacrifice.

About Margaret Mead

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La gente siempre te hará daño alguna vez. El dolor forma parte de la vida. Lo importante es que tú sepas, quién lo hace sin querer, y quién lo hace sin quererte.