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#1

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12670 likes

#2

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

6566 likes

#3

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: love

4700 likes

#4

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

tags: paris

1104 likes

#5

“God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.”
― James McBride, The Color of Water

tags: god, religion

122 likes

#6

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

tags: death, music, remember, songs

786 likes

#7

“There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

tags: music

143 likes

#8

“Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on”
― Louise Rennison, Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

tags: georgia-nicolson

30 likes

#9

“I had tasted cake and there was no going back. My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

tags: humor

61 likes

#10

“Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

92 likes

#11

“Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

59 likes

#12

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

103 likes

#13

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

674 likes

#14

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8591 likes

#15

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: dreams, imagination, psychology

1277 likes

#16

“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: hope, irony, wonder

380 likes

#17

“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

1362 likes

#18

“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

1247 likes

#19

“I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says.

"What did you wish for?" Bailey asks.

Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

586 likes

#20

“I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: darkness, life-after-death, paradise

219 likes

#21

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, feminist, reading

4159 likes

#22

“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: comfort, girls, inspirational, loneliness, suffering

562 likes

#23

“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: ambivalence, confusion, grief, happiness

1079 likes

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