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#1

“Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Teeth

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#2

“It is the tale, not he who tells it.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

365 likes

#3

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

3120 likes

#4

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: infatuation, love, passion

2083 likes

#5

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: love, romeo-and-juliet, values, waste

2496 likes

#6

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: romance, teen-suicide, tragedy

1401 likes

#7

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

164771 likes

#8

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

62061 likes

#9

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

2165 likes

#10

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8423 likes

#11

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2469 likes

#12

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational

3111 likes

#13

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

5781 likes

#14

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

1705 likes

#15

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

2660 likes

#16

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: genius, humor

2180 likes

#17

“What I am
is tired of jam.”
― Russell Hoban

723 likes

#18

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

1872 likes

#19

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

2269 likes

#20

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

2712 likes

#21

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

3950 likes

#22

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1756 likes

#23

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: existence, truth

4913 likes

#24

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

1218 likes

#25

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

tags: books, inspirational, reading

2761 likes

#26

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

1685 likes

#27

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

tags: angels, demons

3789 likes

#28

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

3742 likes

#29

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

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135108 likes

#30

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

1361 likes

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