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“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
― Jessica Hische

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.”
― Babette Deutsch

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Just because you said dragon demons were extinct—"
"I said mostly extinct."
Alec jabbed a finger toward him.
"Mostly extinct," he said, his voice trembling with rage, "is NOT
EXTINCT ENOUGH."
"I see," said Jace. "I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“A mi edad, empezaba a darme cuenta de que, más que las cosas, lo importante es la ilusión que ponemos en ellas. Eso nos hace personas.”
― Jaume Cabré, Jo confesso

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
― Miranda July

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin