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“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― Carter Crocker

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“It wouldn't matter," he says. "If we were in the same world, the one where Kincaid was in love with you, I'd still be here. If you wanted me, I'd be here."

"Why?" I ask.

He hides a grin and runs his thumb over my lips. "I'm not sure the world and me are as complicated as you think, Natalie. I didn't mean to choose you or anything. I just know if I only get to build one porch in my life, I'd like it to be yours, and if there's one person I never have to hurt or disappoint, I'd want that to be you too.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
― Margaret Lee Runbeck

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Will you come with me?"
"Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“The best way to tackle the things that terrify you is to not overthink them - to just do them quickly.”
― Marci Lyn Curtis, The One Thing