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  • #1
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”
    Goethe Wolfgang, The Sorrows of Young Werther

  • #2
    Iain M. Banks
    “The bomb lives only as it is falling.”
    Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

  • #3
    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #4
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #5
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #6
    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #7
    Margaret Atwood
    “She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • #8
    Samuel Beckett
    “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #9
    Umberto Eco
    “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
    Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

  • #11
    Paulo Coelho
    “You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
    Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

  • #12
    Charlotte Brontë
    I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #15
    Victor Hugo
    “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”
    Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

  • #18
    Naomi Wolf
    “She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.”
    Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

  • #19
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all—it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

  • #20
    Henrik Ibsen
    “I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.”
    Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”
    Stephen King, 11/22/63

  • #22
    Walt Whitman
    “We were together. I forget the rest.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #23
    Audre Lorde
    “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
    Audre Lorde

  • #24
    Carol Ann Duffy
    “What will you do now with the gift of your left life?”
    Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees

  • #25
    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

  • #26
    “Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
    Orestes: It’s rotten work.
    Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
    Anne Carson, Euripides

  • #27
    Saul Bellow
    “You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”
    Saul Bellow, Seize the Day

  • #28
    Ada Palmer
    “Every day you step into my life, you make it brighter, and if you left the world, something in me would starve for you forever, as when some barrier rises to shade a plant, which still has light enough to grow some but will never again taste the unbroken sun.”
    Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars

  • #29
    Meg Mason
    “I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done.”
    Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

  • #30
    Penelope Lively
    “Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
    Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger



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