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“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”
― Jean Plaidy, Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Courts of Love

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”
― Scott Lynch, Rogues

“Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters … and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“Love,' Asa said, 'is like a pigeon shitting over a crowd.'
'How so?'
'Where it lands hasn't got much to do with who deserves it.”
― Daniel Abraham, Rogues

“You unfailingly omnibothersome bitch.”
― Scott Lynch, Rogues

“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

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Erwin gave no fucks.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“Buddhism, he thought, is a clean religion. You never heard about how eight people—two of them children—just got blown the fuck up as part of the long-standing conflict between Buddhists and whoever.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“I had begun to perceive my genitals as imaginary beasts in some epic fourteenth-century Scottish poem.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings