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"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,721 people liked it

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: happiness
1,805 people liked it

"i wish i was away in Ingo
far across the briny sea
sailing over deepest waters
where neither care nore worry trouble me"
— Helen Dunmore

3 people liked it

""How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven.I always chose the icicle:the weapon melts away."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

tags: beauty, murder, poetry-
23 people liked it

"Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

28 people liked it

"Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter."
— Melissa Marr (Ink Exchange)

tags: love
181 people liked it

"'You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan"
— Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely)

tags: keenan, lovely, wicked
48 people liked it

"He looked good, like sin in a suit."
— Melissa Marr

tags: exchange, ink, lovely, marr, melissa, wicked
27 people liked it

""Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
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— - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

19 people liked it

"I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore."
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

tags: clothes, humor
53 people liked it

" "I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories""
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

8 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
15,370 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,586 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,708 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
7,952 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,334 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,458 people liked it

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

tags: humor, work
3,898 people liked it

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

tags: reading
3,183 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,683 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
18,998 people liked it

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: bravery
65 people liked it

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: better, empathy, life
371 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
7,277 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
6,061 people liked it

"Peace begins with a smile.."
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
1,574 people liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,163 people liked it

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
619 people liked it

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: determination, inspirational, patience
140 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
6,862 people liked it

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
— Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity
1,762 people liked it

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

tags: food, humor
738 people liked it

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor
192 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
9,653 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,654 people liked it

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom
405 people liked it

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom
232 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,292 people liked it

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: mothers, women
593 people liked it

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: men, rescuing, women
378 people liked it

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
227 people liked it

"Women have always been spies."
— Harriet Rubin (The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women)

tags: first-sentence, women
63 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,686 people liked it

"There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: love
1,676 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
1,117 people liked it

"I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

tags: love, secrets, trust
118 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,637 people liked it

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— e.e. cummings

tags: death, life, poetry
411 people liked it

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
— Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading
236 people liked it

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."
— Orson Welles

tags: life
49 people liked it

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