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"Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong."
— Mark Twain (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)

5 people liked it

"It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart"
— O' Brother Where Art Thou

1 person liked it

"We are such things as dreams are made of/ And our little lives are rounded in a sleep"
— William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

3 people liked it

"For last year's words belong to last year’s language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- from Little Gidding
"
— T. S. Elliott

2 people liked it

"it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty"
— Don Marquis

2 people liked it

"This is how we leave the world,
with the heart weeping,
and the hope that distance
brings the solving wonder
of one last clear view
before that long sleep
about the weather's changes"
— Mark Haddon (The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems)

1 person 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
5,571 people liked it

"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
— Jane Austen

tags: ah, emma-
7 people liked it

""So many humans. So many colors. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone." "
— Mark Zusak

2 people liked it

"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: hope, inspirational, life, philosophy
170 people liked it

"Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing."
— Scott Westerfeld (So Yesterday)

tags: scott, scott-la, so, westerfeld, yesterday
48 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,983 people liked it

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
— Mahatma Ghandi

tags: inspirational
103 people liked it

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
— Mother Teresa

tags: carpe-diem, future, past, present, time
115 people liked it

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
— Harriet Tubman

71 people liked it

"I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail."
— Sojourner Truth

7 people liked it

"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."
— M.T. Anderson (Feed)

tags: first-sentence
46 people liked it

"I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

18 people liked it

"Life is too short to suffer anybody's meanness, which is what you can learn eating shrimp with store-bought coleslaw, if you look it straight in the face."
— Valerie Hobbs (Letting Go of Bobby James: Or How I Found My Self of Steam)

2 people liked it

"This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

54 people liked it

"Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist. "
— George Orwell

tags: 1984, big, brother, george, government, orwell
11 people liked it

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: inspirational
336 people liked it

"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."
— George Orwell (1984)

56 people liked it

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: reading
566 people liked it

"Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe."
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

24 people liked it

"There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone cacll from the frankly interesting."
— Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

8 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
3,022 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,360 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,285 people liked it

"The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams

tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor
1,196 people liked it

"See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that."
— Douglas Adams

15 people liked it

"“A truth comes out when it must;
A dream comes true when it will.
Though the world turn to ash and dust
A secret’s a secret still.”
"
— Sharon Shinn (The Safe-Keeper's Secret)

6 people liked it

"You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it."
— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

tags: beauty, nature, sky
52 people liked it

"Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem."
— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

15 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,477 people liked it

"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

135 people liked it

"Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello."
— Stephen Chbosky

44 people liked it

" "Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them." "
— John Hodgman

17 people liked it

"A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime."
— John Hodgman (More Information Than You Require)

7 people liked it

"Manly deeds, womanly hands."
— John Hodgman (The Areas of My Expertise)

2 people liked it

"The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced."
— Robin McKinley

tags: fantasy
21 people liked it

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
895 people liked it

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
— J.D. Salinger

259 people liked it

"The most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid."
— J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)

tags: blue, daumier-smith-s, de, happiness, joy, nine, period, stories
108 people liked it

"Mothers are all slightly insane."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

110 people liked it

"People always clap for the wrong reasons."
— Holden Caulfield ( The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger)

60 people liked it

"Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing."
— Maureen Johnson

22 people liked it

"This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me."
— Marianne Curley (Old Magic)

5 people liked it

"I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

298 people liked it

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the
face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the
oranges you originally asked for."
— Cassandra Clare

266 people liked it

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