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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #2
    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    Henry James

  • #3
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #4
    Alan             Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    Alan Moore

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #7
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

  • #8
    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
    Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

  • #9
    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
    José Ortega y Gasset

  • #10
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    George Carlin

  • #11
    Juan Rulfo
    “Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
    Juan Rulfo

  • #12
    Eoin Colfer
    “I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

  • #13
    Diane Duane
    “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
    Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

  • #14
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #15
    Tupac Shakur
    “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
    Tupac Shakur

  • #16
    Tupac Shakur
    “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
    Tupac Shakur

  • #17
    Tupac Shakur
    “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
    Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

  • #18
    Tupac Shakur
    “I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
    Tupac Shakur

  • #19
    Tupac Shakur
    “They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.”
    Tupac Shakur

  • #20
    Tupac Shakur
    “Hate to sound sleazy,
    but tease me,
    I don't want it if it's that easy”
    Tupac Shakur

  • #21
    Jane Green
    “Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
    Jane Green, The Beach House

  • #22
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #23
    John Hodgman
    “Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
    John Hodgman

  • #24
    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    Carol Shields

  • #25
    John Masefield
    “The days that make us happy make us wise.”
    John Masefield

  • #26
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
    Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

  • #27
    Dodie Smith
    “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #28
    Pearl S. Buck
    “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #29
    Mercedes Lackey
    “If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
    Mercedes Lackey

  • #30
    “Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
    Thea Dorn



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