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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

“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

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Thank God for the aged And for age itself, and illness and the grave. When we are old and ill, and particularly in the coffin, It is no trouble to behave.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The beauty of my passion had been crushed under the weight of my horrific past.”
― Anne Tibbets, Walled

“...we are our flaws, but they don't have to define us as either good or evil.”
― Erica Crouch, Ignite

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
― Brian Moore

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“But what I do I do because I like to do.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange