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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    C.S. Lewis
    “If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #5
    Julie Klassen
    “When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.”
    Julie Klassen, The Silent Governess

  • #6
    “I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
    "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
    She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #7
    “Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling

  • #8
    “There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.”
    Kristin Cashore, Fire

  • #9
    “I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.”
    Kristin Cashore, Fire

  • #10
    “I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.”
    Kristin Cashore, Fire

  • #11
    “A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.”
    Kristin Cashore, Fire

  • #12
    Rachel Hartman
    “There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.”
    Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

  • #13
    Rachel Hartman
    “...emotions fly humans toward art”
    Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

  • #14
    Alethea Kontis
    When sad she brings the thunder
    And her tears, they bring the rain
    When ill she feeds a poison
    To us all to fell her pain
    Her smiles they bring the sunshine
    And the laughter and the wind
    And the birds they go on singing
    And the world is whole again.
    "Smile, sweet Sunday," Wednesday whispered in her ear. "The birds need your love so they can lift their wings.

    Alethea Kontis, Enchanted

  • #15
    Alethea Kontis
    “Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?"
    "Especially those." said Joy.”
    Alethea Kontis, Enchanted

  • #16
    Charles Martin
    “You take the bad with the good, Rise up through it. Live in the mist of it. It's the bad that lets you know ho good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't any good. There is, and lots of it, too. ”
    Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

  • #17
    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    Émile Zola

  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
    Rick Riordan

  • #19
    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    Henri Matisse

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #22
    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #23
    Pablo Picasso
    “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #24
    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Pablo Picasso
    “When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #27
    Pablo Picasso
    “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #28
    Yann Martel
    “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #29
    Groucho Marx
    “Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #30
    Groucho Marx
    “From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
    Groucho Marx



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