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“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“As soon as one is born, one starts dying.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

“A coward’s weapon? Not so much. Poison is the weapon of the emotionless, the sociopathic, the truly cruel.”
― Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

“People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“A goal is a dream with it's work boots on.”
― Rachel Hollis, Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

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

“If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

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

“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
― Edmund Burke

“Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing
nothing.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“A man dies... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.”
― Wolfgang Borchert

“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
― Marsha Norman, The Fortune Teller

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
― Hemingway Ernest, A Moveable Feast

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set

“All of our lives suck right now, okay? You might think yours is an extra special sparkly rainbow unicorn fart type of suck, but it’s not. Just get on with it!”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Departed

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything