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“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

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

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
― Delia Ephron, Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.

“The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.”
― Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise