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#1

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5009 likes

#2

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

3733 likes

#3

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

3819 likes

#4

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

tags: stories

2840 likes

#5

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

2701 likes

#6

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

tags: edward

3189 likes

#7

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

1268 likes

#8

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2625 likes

#9

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3561 likes

#10

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

3889 likes

#11

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47043 likes

#12

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

23996 likes

#13

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege

14015 likes

#14

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6459 likes

#15

“Hey guys,' I said. 'Don't be idiots. This is Evan. Evan, the angry-looking one is Jerom, the constipated-looking one is Nathan, and the goofball on the right is Gage.'
Gage laughed. 'Constipated, Nathan? We said to look fierce.”
― Kasie West, On the Fence

101 likes

#16

“Sometimes we expect more that people are capable of giving at the moment”
― Kasie West, On the Fence

187 likes

#17

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

5090 likes

#18

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

2476 likes

#19

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2118 likes

#20

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

3146 likes

#21

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7884 likes

#22

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

1537 likes

#23

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

tags: art, love

9013 likes

#24

“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

8484 likes

#25

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

2285 likes

#26

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

3305 likes

#27

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

1159 likes

#28

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

2305 likes

#29

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: hate, love

8092 likes

#30

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

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

135581 likes

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