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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,526 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,115 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,976 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,654 people liked it

"Edward - I wasn't about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive.
Bella - So let's say my bad luck did crash the plane. What exactly were you going to do about it?
Edward - Why is the plane crashing?
He was trying to hide a smile now.
Bella - The pilots are passed out drunk.
Edward - Easy. I'd fly the plane.
Of course. I pursed my lips and tried again.
Bella - Both engines have exploded and we're falling in a death spiral toward the earth.
Edward - I'd wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I'd run you back to the scene of the accident, and we'd stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history.
I stared at him wordlessly.
"What?" he whispered."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: humor
1,445 people liked it

"You know things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: fantasy, fiction, romance
330 people liked it

"Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly.
"No! Of course not."
"No, not really? You really didn't attack him?"
"Emmett!" I protested.
"Aw, what a waste," Emmett groaned. "And here you're probably the one person who could take him--since he can't get in your head to cheat--and you had a perfect excuse, too." He sighed. "I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage."
I glared at him frostily. "I would never."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: fantasy, fiction, romance
153 people liked it

"Unable to help my reaction entirely, I snarled under my breath.
"Oooo, scary," Emmett laughed."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: fantasy, fiction, romance
149 people liked it

"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."
— Janet Evanovich

tags: birthday, cake, life, novels, romance
147 people liked it

"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

tags: love, romance
152 people liked it

"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
136 people liked it

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
— L.M. Montgomery

tags: mistakes
166 people liked it

"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? (Anne Shirley)"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
82 people liked it

"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: laughter, life
93 people liked it

"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: friends, friendship, together, together-in-spirit, true-friends
93 people liked it

"I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."
— L.M. Montgomery

34 people liked it

"You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams."
— L.M. Montgomery (The Road to Yesterday)

tags: dreams
34 people liked it

"It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it. "
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

41 people liked it

"Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself.
Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting."
— L.M. Montgomery

21 people liked it

"When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.
-Aunt Jimsie"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island)

tags: wisdom
17 people liked it

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
972 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

772 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,202 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
369 people liked it

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: faith
342 people liked it

"Witch king: Fool. No man may can kill me!
Eowyn: (pulls off helmet) I am no man! (kills him)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King)

tags: death, fate, girl-power, grrl, humor, irony, movie, prophecy
225 people liked it

"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien

164 people liked it

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: fantasy
129 people liked it

"The only thing you have to decide is what to do with time that is given to you."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King)

tags: destiny, fate, life, movie
190 people liked it

"I will not say, Do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: gandalf, grief
125 people liked it

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

101 people liked it

"'What do you fear, lady?' [Aragorn:] asked.
'A cage,' [Éowyn:] said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.'"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

77 people liked it

" And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: gondor, romance
157 people liked it

"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

62 people liked it

"Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain may fall, and wind may blow
And many miles be still to go
But under a tall tree will i lie
And let the clouds go sailing by"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: liquor, poetry, sadness
53 people liked it

"[Fairy tale] does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.
"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

40 people liked it

"speak politely to an enraged dragon"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons
42 people liked it

""Oft hope is born when all is forlorn." Legolas,from The Lord of the Rings,book version"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King)

tags: elf, hope, legolas
38 people liked it

"All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

tags: fantasy
31 people liked it

""You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

29 people liked it

"What does your heart tell you? "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set)

tags: aragorn-
26 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,220 people liked it

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: books, library, reading
1,445 people liked it

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

tags: humor, love, romantic, women
1,535 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,570 people liked it

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: husband, marriage, wife
848 people liked it

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

tags: love, requirements
763 people liked it

"You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: mr-darcy-to-elizabeth-bennett
502 people liked it

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
— Jane Austen

413 people liked it

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen

365 people liked it

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