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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love.
So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to
describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the
same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their
lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
― Marilyn Manson

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Envy is a dangerous sin. To envy someone you love is to kill a part of yourself”
― Alisa M. Libby, The Blood Confession

“Not one person in this world believes that they are truly good enough as they are: good enough to be admired, to be respected, to be loved. Only I am willing to admit this.”
― Alisa M. Libby, The Blood Confession

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I will not let you go into the unknown alone.”
― Bram Stoker

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.”
― Sophocles

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist