“Love is like a thief, it robs you of all thought and logic, and all you have left is a heart that you can only pray is strong enough to survive the rest.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“He slowly turned around. “What is love? In English.” I raised my brows. “Love, in English, is love?” “What is it in Spanish?” I was so enthralled by his hypnotic eyes, I could barely remember. “Amore?” He shook his head ever so slightly. “No. Love in Spanish is you.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You can fall in love in a second,” she said with a snap of her fingers. “The heart has no regard for time.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Sometimes you are stuck being the person you are and not the person you were. Or could be.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Design your own universe, make your own stars, write your own stories, and create your own destiny.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“But I’m starting to think that most villains aren’t evil—they are just misunderstood. Or victims of that most manipulative force: love.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“One minute we were a memory in the making, and in the next we were just a memory. Something to haunt me for the rest of my life.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You burn so brightly,” he said, his voice low and rough to raise the hair on my arms. “I would like to burn with you.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Love, our love, had been a shooting star, burning in the darkness, unseen until it got too close, too bright and too quick to capture. It burned out, lost to the deep cold and darkness, to the brutality of space, the infinity above us and in the new emptiness inside of me.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“I'm starting to think that most villains aren't evil - they are just misundertood.
Or victims of that manipulative force: Love.
Love causes war and causes death, breaks souls and breaks lives. It runs people into the ground, makes them behave like moronic, immoral beasts, before it dances off, leaving only destruction in its wake - hearts blown wide open for the whole world to see.
Love puts the blame on the poor souls who succumb to it.
Love, that ultimate villainess. She makes examples of us all.
And yet we still come back for more.
We keep playing the role she gives us.
For one more chance to feel alive.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“That was just existing. That was just chasing down the next day so I could feel it pass under me.” He placed his large hand over my heart. “You made me stop chasing the days. You made me hold onto them.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Take a seat,” I said. “I’m about to go all Nicolas Sparks on your ass.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Hope was a dangerous thing, I knew, but it didn’t stop your heart from latching on to it like a life raft.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars —Gilbert Parker”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“The stars may place us in each other's paths-I dare say that everyone here has been a victim of some sort of celestial fate. Perhaps we were all fated to meet, to be here with each other, but it is up to us to decide to shine or not. The stars are not unreachable. They are not untouchable. And they do not control us.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Sometimes you don't need everyone on your side, you only need a few.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“He looks at you like... like you’re his favorite food.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You shine brighter than the sun"
"But even the sun goes away every night"
"But it is hte sun's absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the moon can't replace. That is why we hang on to each day we are given.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“The heart had no regard for time, no regard for pain.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You are loney, but you say you like to be alone" I nodded. "I do. I prefer it. But... it doesn't mean I don't want someone to love me. It doesn't mean that I don't have a lot of love in me to give someone”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“His fingertips felt like whispers, telling my skin secrets.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You and I, we were always a memory in the making.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You can’t fall in love in a week,” I told her heatedly. “You can fall in love in a second,” she said with a snap of her fingers. “The heart has no regard for time.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Look, I don't know who has been telling you over the years that you aren't worthy of love and happiness, but they're idiots. We all deserve it. And if people get hurt along the way, that's life. We've all been hurt. Doesn't that make love more crucial to our lives?”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Any last minute advice?” She raised a brow. “Try not to fall in love with anyone,”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“I did not want to live a life with regrets. You only regretted the shit you didn’t do.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“I love you because you are you. You’re a little bit crazy, and I find that more interesting than being normal. You’re passionate and I find that more fascinating than being calm. You’re curious and adventurous and sexual, and you’re full of life and you make me want to be a better man, to live louder, to bend and break all the damn rules.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You’re saying we can write our own destiny,” I said, feeling too jaded and stubborn in the moment to believe it.
“I am saying,” he said carefully, “that this is not the end of the story. Not the way I am writing it.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Every family needs a black sheep to call them on their bullshit.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Dedication For anyone who has ever taken a chance on uncertainty”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
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“For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.”
― quote from Daphnis and Chloe
“Because when you’re not considered to be a threat, you can get away with much, much more.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Good Samaritan
“I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.”
― George Carlin, quote from Napalm & Silly Putty
“Jason was the next batter. He did his whole Velcro routine. Then he stepped up to the plate.
The first ball went past.
“Strike!”
I groaned. “Come on, Jason.”
He swung at the second.
I didn’t realize I was squeezing Tiffany’s and Bird’s hands until Bird said, “You know, bones break under pressure.”
“Oh, sorry.” I tried holding my own hands, but it wasn’t as comforting.”
― Rachel Hawthorne, quote from The Boyfriend League
“Construyendo los pensamientos de esta manera y, particularmente, si tu deseo es aprovechar la muerte para el bien de todos los seres, será necesario que reconozcas la Luz, a fin de alcanzar con ella la sublime coronación del Estado del Gran Símbolo4. Para ello, debes decir: ‘Puede que no pueda comprenderlo, pero conoceré este Bardo y dominando al Gran Cuerpo de Unión en él, renaceré en cualquiera de las formas que beneficie a los seres sensibles. Serviré a todos ellos que se extienden hasta los confines del espacio. Sin interrumpir el pensamiento de la disposición del espíritu de la vigilia’ ”. Es en este momento cuando el moribundo debe tratar de recordar las enseñanzas religiosas que le fueron impartidas durante su vida. Al decir estas palabras, el guía debe colocar sus labios cerca del oído y repetirlas claramente, dejando una huella en la mente del moribundo para que no tenga oportunidad de extraviarse y se mantenga recta en su camino. Por esa razón, tras el cese completo de la espiración, debe presionarse firmemente el nervio del sueño; luego, si quien muere es un lama o una persona con mayor instrucción, se le grabarán las siguientes palabras: “Reverendo Señor, ahora te encuentras en la experiencia de la Luz Clara Fundamental; permanece en ese estado”. Si se trata de una persona cualquiera, el guía deberá decir: “Oh, noble nacido (nombre), escucha lo que tengo para decirte: estás experimentando el Resplandor de la Luz Clara de la Realidad Pura. Debes reconocerla. Tu intelecto actual, ya vacío por completo y sin formas que condicionen el color, la sustancia o el pensamiento, vacío hasta la naturalidad más absoluta, es la Realidad y el Todo Bueno. El propio intelecto, ahora ya por completo vacío pero manteniendo su existencia en sí, está libre de limitaciones y brilla. Es el intelecto mismo y no el vacío de la nada, la bienaventurada conciencia, el Buda Todo Bondad. La conciencia tuya, ahora sin formación y vacía de toda realidad, y tu intelecto en pleno brillo, son dos esencias inseparables cuya unión es el estado Dharma-Käya, la Iluminación Perfecta. La conciencia tuya, unida al Cuerpo Grande que Resplandece, vacía por completo y luminosa, no tiene principio ni fin, y es una Luz Perdurable, el Buda Amitabha. Será necesario y suficiente que reconozcas el vacío de tu intelecto en el Estado Búdico, y que comprendas que se trata de tu conciencia, para que te mantengas con la mente en su estado divino”.”
― Padmasambhava, quote from Tibetan Book of the Dead
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