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"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

70 people liked it

"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

44 people liked it

"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

tags: first-sentence
26 people liked it

"You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free."
— Shannon Hale

tags: freedom, love
92 people liked it

"I was under the stars, like a fish is under water."
— Shannon Hale

tags: b1000
62 people liked it

"I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself."
— Shannon Hale

tags: laughing
640 people liked it

"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.” "
— Jane Austen

23 people liked it

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. "
— Jane Austen

tags: education, women
155 people liked it

"What strange creatures brothers are!"
— Jane Austen

tags: brothers
144 people liked it

"Angry people are not always wise."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
352 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
529 people liked it

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

tags: abbey, austen, jane, northanger
375 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
800 people liked it

"In vain have I struggled but it will not do, my feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you, how much I love and admire you."
— Jane Austen

354 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
1,666 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)

tags: adventuring, death, screenplay
813 people liked it

"Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender"
— E.L. Konigsburg (The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World)

18 people liked it

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: children-s, entertainment, stories
929 people liked it

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
1,072 people liked it

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

tags: love
1,674 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,656 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
3,170 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,811 people liked it

"Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you"
— Orson Scott Card (Sarah: Women of Genesis)

57 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
1,613 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
1,503 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
2,281 people liked it

"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
5,723 people liked it

"There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name."
— Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread)

128 people liked it

"Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad."
— Sharon Creech (Absolutely Normal Chaos)

tags: sad, waiting
57 people liked it

"Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran up and said, Excuse me, but your stupid roommate is going insane, and I had to bolt upstairs and put him in a headlock."
— Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)

tags: funny, insane, outburst, whitegirl
6 people liked it

"Josh Mendel has a secret.
Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is."
— Barry Lyga (Boy Toy)

4 people liked it

"There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale."
— Anna Godbersen (The Luxe)

tags: envy
29 people liked it

""Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.""
— Anna Godbersen (The Luxe)

10 people liked it

"As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red."
— Anna Godbersen (The Luxe)

tags: clothing, colors, fashion, red
26 people liked it

"Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you."
— Anna Godbersen (Rumors)

27 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
18,946 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,952 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
15,329 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,536 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,791 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,757 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,941 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,852 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,684 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,623 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,890 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,355 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,848 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,927 people liked it

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