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  • #1
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #2
    Colleen Hoover
    “So you keep your ocean, I'll take the Lake.”
    Colleen Hoover, Slammed

  • #3
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #4
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #5
    Elizabeth Strout
    “I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
    Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

  • #6
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    Tim Burton

  • #7
    Gloria Naylor
    “The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
    Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

  • #8
    J.M. Coetzee
    “Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
    J.M. Coetzee

  • #9
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #10
    Neil LaBute
    “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

  • #11
    Tennessee Williams
    “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
    Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  • #12
    Kate DiCamillo
    “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

  • #13
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    Erica Jong

  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #15
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #17
    David Wroblewski
    “You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
    David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

  • #18
    Nora Ephron
    “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #19
    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    John Cheever

  • #20
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #22
    William Styron
    “We're all in this game together.”
    William Styron

  • #23
    Djuna Barnes
    “A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
    Djuna Barnes

  • #24
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom

  • #25
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
    Aung San Suu Kyi

  • #26
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #27
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #28
    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

  • #29
    D. Aswini
    “Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life”
    D. Aswini, Saffron - The Blood Swan

  • #30
    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    Anna Quindlen



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