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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I have seen trees that survive fire. Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. But hidden under that skeleton is a force that sends a single shoot of green out into the world.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“Kissing Amber was like falling into the sea: Her body surrendered to the pull of the tide, buoyed by the saltwater, every breath tasting like the ocean. Reese lost all sense of where the surface was. All there was, was this. Amber’s lips, her tongue, her hands stroking back Reese’s hair, curling around her head and holding her steady. If their first kiss had been a bit awkward, that was gone now.”
― Malinda Lo, Adaptation

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind