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  • #1
    “I don’t want to forget what it feels like to have someone touch me. I don’t want to forget what it feels like to touch other people.”
    A.E.M., Phoenix Incandescent

  • #2
    “Dear Charlotte, a man forgets fear exists while kissing you.”
    A.E.M., Phoenix Incandescent
    tags: fear, life, love

  • #3
    “She was curious about fire in a way she had never been before. Why was it that life giving and destruction seemed to walk hand-in-hand?”
    A.E.M., Phoenix Incandescent

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #7
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #9
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Muriel Spark
    “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
    Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  • #13
    Caragh M. O'Brien
    “There are some things, once they are done, that we can never question, because if we did, we wouldn't be able to go on. And we have to go on, every single day.”
    Caragh M. O'Brien, Birthmarked

  • #14
    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #15
    Juliet Marillier
    “If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
    Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

  • #16
    Juliet Marillier
    “He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”
    Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest

  • #17
    Juliet Marillier
    “Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.”
    Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest

  • #18
    Juliet Marillier
    “I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.”
    Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

  • #19
    Juliet Marillier
    “I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.”
    Juliet Marillier, Seer of Sevenwaters

  • #20
    Juliet Marillier
    “We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.”
    Juliet Marillier, Seer of Sevenwaters

  • #21
    Anita Desai
    “Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
    Anita Desai

  • #22
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #23
    Beatrix Potter
    “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #24
    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #25
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #26
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
    Margaret Wise Brown

  • #27
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

  • #28
    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson

  • #29
    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #30
    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night



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