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“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
― William Cullen Bryant

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
― Sharon Olds

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”
― Helen Hooven Santmyer

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
― James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia