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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

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

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

“It’s hard to have faith in your fellow man when you’re forced to look at some of his handiwork.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

“Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible to refute since the person who could condemn them has been silenced forever.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

“There’s no point to anything if you get right down to it. We could all blow out brains out, but we don’t.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

“I’m not cute at all. I’m a very cranky person.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

“What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent