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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“You're the most annoying girl on the planet. You make me want to throw myself off a bridge. And, unfortunately, I am one hundred percent, head-over-heels, crazy in love with you.”
― Cecily White, Prophecy Girl

“She gets a man who will love her completely and faithfully. She gets a man who will not only save her life, but lay down his own to keep her safe. He will provide for her no matter the cost, he will shelter her against all storms that come their way, he will be the one to bring a smile to her face when no one else can. She gets a friend, a lover, a mate, the only man in this world who can complete her and give her the other half of her soul.”
― Quinn Loftis, Blood Rites

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

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

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“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

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

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

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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

“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
― Robert Burns

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nobody said not to go.”
― Emily Hahn