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  • #1
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

  • #2
    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    François Rabelais

  • #3
    Jonathan Ames
    “I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
    Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

  • #4
    Stephanie Coontz
    “Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and even less practical support.”
    Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

  • #5
    David Levithan
    “I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
    It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”
    David Levithan, Every Day
    tags: love

  • #6
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #7
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom

  • #10
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

  • #11
    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    Philip José Farmer

  • #12
    Ryan Holiday
    “When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?”
    Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

  • #13
    Penelope Lively
    “Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
    Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

  • #14
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #15
    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson



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