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21 " Wood always remembers it was once a living tree, alive and breathing in both kingdoms, the one above and the one below. "
― Guillermo del Toro , Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
22 " for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing. "
― Guillermo del Toro , The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)
23 " ...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone. "
24 " Monsters are the patron saints of otherness. "
― Guillermo del Toro
25 " When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day. "
― Guillermo del Toro , The Shape of Water
26 " Tom Hiddleston is so fucking nice. It used to be in the past you were either nice, or you were good-looking and an asshole. "
27 " Coffee—a barbaric drink. That poor, tortured bean. All that fermenting and husking and roasting and grinding. And what is tea? Tea is dried leaves rehydrated. Just add water, Mrs. Strickland. All living things need water. "
28 " The only piece of home Ofelia had been able to take with her were some of her books. She closed her fingers firmly around the one on her lap, caressing the cover. When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of. "
29 " When she finally wrapped her arms around the girl, the softness stirring in her heart frightened her. It was dangerous to be soft in this world. "
30 " Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who we are even more than the people we love. "
31 " Nothing can unman you like an un-man. "
32 " I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006) "
33 " You'll meet her, she's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her. "
34 " She’d been in a deep, soft, warm dream and wants it back, one more tantalizing minute. But the dream eludes wakeful pursuit; it always does. "
35 " He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. "Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP?" Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. "This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of -- "
― Guillermo del Toro , Trollhunters
36 " What is a ghost?A tragedy condemned to repeatitself time and again?A moment of pain, perhaps.Something dead whichstill seems to be alive.An emotion suspended in time.Like a blurred photograph.Like an insect trapped in amber.A ghost.That's what I am. "
37 " Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about--Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life. "
38 " Soy un romántico desilusionado o un pesimista esperanzado. Cualquiera de las dos cosas. "
39 " All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in your entirety for who you are, that’s the greatest act of love, because it’s granting you existence. And the rarest act of love is, like cinema, to see. "
40 " What had brought him to this outpost of hell? Ferreira wondered while following Garces into the rain: fate or his own decisions? "