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“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

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

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

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

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

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”
― Giorgio Vasari

“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
― Robert Burns

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”
― Timothy Mo

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne