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“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

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

“If you drive a man to choose between death of his body or corruption of his soul, how much are you also to blame if his choice is the wrong one?”
― Anne Perry, Belgrave Square

“She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.”
― anne perry

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
― Harriet Martineau

“Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.”
― Anne Perry, The Face of a Stranger

“BRADBURY: Well, if you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love. And this works the same way. With your friends--let’s say in writing--if you don’t offer criticism to them and scare them on occasion… In other words you say to a new writer, for gods sake write, because if you don’t you will disappear. The world doesn’t give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn’t make them. If you are lazy, if you don’t get the work that you love done, the world won’t care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
― Arthur Miller

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each other and, with a common grief, grow far apart. There must be something in the nature of love between a man and a woman that drove them to torment and suspicion.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.”
― Daphne du Maurier, The Birds

“Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days.
Not anymore, though.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day