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  • #1
    Julia Quinn
    “You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
    Julia Quinn

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #8
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #9
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #11
    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #12
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #13
    Virginia Woolf
    “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #15
    Virginia Woolf
    “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #16
    Virginia Woolf
    “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #17
    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #19
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #21
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #22
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #23
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #24
    Rainbow Rowell
    “He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #25
    Graeme Simsion
    “I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
    Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

  • #26
    Graeme Simsion
    “Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”
    Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

  • #27
    Graeme Simsion
    “I met Rosie at the airport. She remained uncomfortable about me purchasing her ticket, so I told her she could pay me back by selecting some Wife Project applicants for me to date.
    'Fuck you,’ she said.
    It seemed we were friends again.”
    Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

  • #28
    Graeme Simsion
    “Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.”
    Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

  • #29
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #30
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein



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