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  • #1
    Lewis Carroll
    “I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #2
    “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #3
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #5
    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #6
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #7
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #10
    Kent Haruf
    “You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.”
    Kent Haruf

  • #11
    W.C. Fields
    “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #12
    “Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #15
    “Anyone can be brave for five minutes or an hour or two. The bravery no one talks about is the hardest bravery of all. When you get up in the morning even though you'd rather be dead, that's brave.”
    Carys Bray, A Song for Issy Bradley

  • #16
    Trevor Noah
    “If you're Native American and you pray to the wolves, you're a savage. If you're African and you pray to your ancestors, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that's just common sense.”
    Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

  • #17
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

  • #18
    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    Doris Lessing

  • #19
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #21
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #22
    Fredrik Backman
    “If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
    Fredrik Backman, Beartown

  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #24
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me,
    what is it you plan to do
    with your one
    wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #25
    Thomas Merton
    “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
    Thomas Merton, Love and Living

  • #26
    Matthew Quick
    “Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.”
    Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #28
    “People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #29
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot

  • #30
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #31
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables



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