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#1

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

2410 likes

#2

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: friendship, love

21797 likes

#3

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

10235 likes

#4

“O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

- Romeo -”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

130 likes

#5

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13927 likes

#6

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle}”
― Alexander the Great

tags: aristotle, debt, father, teacher, teachers

291 likes

#7

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

3210 likes

#8

“It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

16 likes

#10

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

3125 likes

#11

“I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: rebirth, wonder

136 likes

#12

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

tags: despair

921 likes

#13

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

5516 likes

#14

“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

3560 likes

#15

“I will have but one mistress and no master”
― queen Elizabeth I

80 likes

#16

“I am air and thought and can do nothing.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

220 likes

#17

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

24157 likes

#18

“A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: historical-fiction, story, truth

80 likes

#19

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

13646 likes

#20

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

2192 likes

#21

“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. ”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

265 likes

#22

“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.”
― Anne Boleyn

60 likes

#23

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7339 likes

#24

“jealous men only tormented themselves.”
― Philip Freeman, Alexander the Great

9 likes

#25

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: ferocity

3901 likes

#26

“Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: joy, life, music

39 likes

#27

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

42321 likes

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