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#1

“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

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#2

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: happiness

330 likes

#3

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: expect, expectations, hope, love, wish

470 likes

#4

“Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: chaos, freedom, life, meaning, truth

65 likes

#5

“Not being perfect hurts.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

72 likes

#6

“My girl, some boats are made for the river and some for the ocean. And there are some that can go anywhere because they always know the way home.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

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#7

“Books had always been her solace; novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her own imagination.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

tags: inspirational

86 likes

#8

“When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

238 likes

#9

“Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

1076 likes

#10

“Inaction is a powerful choice”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

100 likes

#11

“Time will explain.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: time

469 likes

#12

“You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. You taught me love. You, first in the whole world, and my love for you will outlive me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

54 likes

#12

“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: 18-april

118 likes

#13

“It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

4530 likes

#14

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

1578 likes

#16

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: life

3989 likes

#17

“Kindness is something that seems small, Daunis, but it's like tossing a pebble into a pond and the ripples reach further than you thought.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

53 likes

#18

“It wasn’t the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

148 likes

#19

“How many different deaths I can die?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

81 likes

#20

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

5864 likes

#21

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: devotion, love, misattributed, pronouncements-of-love

587 likes

#22

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: life, music

644 likes

#23

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

613 likes

#24

“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: love, time

1456 likes

#25

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen

1008 likes

#26

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

665 likes

#27

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

4179 likes

#28

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

13802 likes

#29

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

12703 likes

#30

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

4749 likes

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