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“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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

“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election

“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems