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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #8
    Leonard Cohen
    “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #9
    Leonard Cohen
    “I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #10
    Leonard Cohen
    “How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
    Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

  • #11
    Leonard Cohen
    “Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #15
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #18
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.'

    You'll always be like this to me.'

    Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Magnetism

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #20
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

  • #21
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

  • #22
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

  • #23
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace and Other Stories

  • #24
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #26
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    tags: love

  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast



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