“...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“...while finding true love was one of the most splendid things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“Man has a thousand plans, Heaven but one..”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“The saddest thing in the world is to see a man die wearing the forlorn expression of someone who has failed to fulfill his dreams.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“Had I known dreaming would one day become impossible, I would never have stopped doing it.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen few know what that history is.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“¿No deberíamos considerar un héroe a alguien que logra crear un mundo perfecto, aunque tan solo sea por un instante y para un solo hombre?”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and the other madness, yet he will find no peace on either, as the current of his art drags him away from the everyday life on it's banks, where others watch, unable to help him until he reaches the immensity of the ocean.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“Y así, con parsimonia de estalactita, el ser confeccionó el caballete de una delicada osamenta que enseguida quedó encapotada por un ondulante manto de carne, nervios y tendones. Tras el enrejado del esternón asomaron entonces los esponjosos pulmones que lanzaron a través de la cerbatana de la tráquea recién colocada un reguero de vaho, anegando la urna con la tibia novedad de una respiración.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“It might even teach Murray that while finding true love was one of the most wonderful things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“For if you succeed in making this girl laugh, if you make her laughter ring in the air like a fountain of silver coins cascading to the floor, you will win her heart forever.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“My good manners prevent me from answering that, Mr. Gilmore, and my honesty from lying. Draw your own conclusions.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“Perhaps love is a sentiment shared by other species in the universe. But the love that a human being can generate is exclusively his own and will die with him. After that, the universe, perhpas despite its unfathomable vastness, its apparent infinity, will no longer be complete.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“Suicide is always a possibility," he said in a soft voice, catching his double's attention, "and so it's advisable to exhaust all others first.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“But first you have to fight, to try other ways. If your life displeases you, my lad, try to change it. Don't give in to defeat so easily. Death is the only sure defeat. It is the end of everything.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“...that the love between Murray and Emma was permanent and changing; that in each universe, each reality, each and every world where their eyes met, they could not help but fall in love.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
“When he saw the lovers in the midst of the encircling crowd, Wells smiled once more, hoping that what he had thought moments before when he saw the smile appear on the girl's lips was true; that the love between Murray and Emma was permanent and unchanging; that in each universe, each reality, each and every world where their eyes met, they could not help but fall in love.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of the Sky
Félix J. Palma
Born place: in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain
Born date June 16, 1968
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“Steldor, maybe you could try to deter your father, you know, from making arrangements for me so soon. Would another year or two really matter?”
He responded with a dry laugh. “Deter my father? Shaselle, trying to deter my father once he’s made up his mind is like yelling whoa at a stampede of wild horses.”
“Doesn’t stop you,” I muttered, crossing my arms with a huff.
Again that cynical chuckle. “I assure you, it does.”
“No, it doesn’t.” I pushed off the rough stone to stare at him. Annoyance came to me ever more quickly these days, and now the disagreeable temperament my mother and older sister condemned was emerging. I pointed back up the road. “Explain that scarecrow to me, if you’re so obedient! I know your father was upset with you after you posted your rules, but you went ahead anyway, without his blessing.”
Steldor clamped a hand over my mouth, the other holding the back of my neck, then he leaned close to hiss, “I’d prefer if my involvement in both of those incidents remained undisclosed.”
My cheeks burned, and I pushed his hands away. “Sorry. That was stupid. But isn’t there anything you can do? You have the captain’s ear.”
“What I have is his attention,” he corrected, having accepted my apology and brushed aside our tense exchange. “Not intentionally, mind you, but I’ll be keeping it over the next few weeks. He’ll probably be distracted from you anyway.”
“You’re planning another stunt?”
He winked. “Would you expect anything less of Galen and me?”
“Can I help you?”
The up-and-down nature of our conversation persisted, and he shook his head vehemently.
“This is dangerous, what we’ve been doing. We laugh, but these aren’t games. If we’re caught, we’ll be arrested. There’s a reason my father disapproves, in spite of his own ambitions.” He let his rebuff hang in the hot air while I again felt color rising in my cheeks. “Just go home, Shaselle. Put on a dress. Be a lady, and stay out of trouble. Understand?”
“I hate them, too, you know,” I said, his dismissal and the humiliation that came with it rankling me. “It’s not just your homeland that the Cokyrians have sullied--it’s my homeland, too. And those bastards killed my father.”
“And bitches,” he added, catching me off guard. “Wouldn’t want to forget the women.”
I didn’t know how to respond, so I gaped at him foolishly until he stepped onto the cobblestone of the thoroughfare.
“Come on. Let me take you home.”
We walked in silence back to the western residential area where I lived, though he stopped at the beginning of my street to let me traverse the rest of the distance by myself.
“I shouldn’t be seen around here. Not where Galen’s assigned--the Cokyrians are trying to keep us apart to avoid plots big and small, and will be suspicious if we’re seen in the same area.”
I nodded and turned to go, but he grabbed my arm.
“I know how you feel, Shaselle. I know you want to do something, and it’s not even that I don’t think you could. I just can’t let you be involved, for the sake of your safety. And mine,” he added as an afterthought. “My father would kill me if I let you help and you came to harm. Just please, let this go, and I swear I’ll do my best to influence him on your marriage issue.”
Now that I was thinking rationally, offering my assistance had been absurd--I had no special skills aside from horseback riding, and certainly no military training , so accepting Steldor’s offered compromise was not difficult.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Sacrifice
“If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Worthing Saga
“Now it's going to turn into the biggest media blitz since the Pope's divorce.”
― Dani Kollin, quote from The Unincorporated Man
“I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city--that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed.”
― Laurie Lee, quote from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
“What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th’ Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men.”
― John Milton, quote from Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
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