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Alexandra Mircescu
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#1
“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
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Diana Gabaldon,
Outlander
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#2
“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
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Rick Riordan,
The Last Olympian
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“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
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Marie Lu,
Legend
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#4
“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
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Veronica Roth,
Allegiant
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#5
“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
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Lorrie Moore,
Anagrams
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#6
“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
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Ruth Reichl
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#7
“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
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A.A. Milne
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#8
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
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Patricia Highsmith,
The Price of Salt
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#9
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
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Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One’s Own
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#10
“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
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Philip José Farmer
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#11
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
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Gertrude Stein
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#12
“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
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Lucille Clifton,
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
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#13
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
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Miranda July,
It Chooses You
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#14
“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
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LeVar Burton
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#15
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
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Jack Kerouac
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“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
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Louis L'Amour,
Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
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#17
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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#18
“I write to discover what I know.”
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Flannery O'Connor
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#19
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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#20
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
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Zora Neale Hurston
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#21
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
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Pablo Neruda,
Love: Ten Poems
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#22
“Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”
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Ko Un
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#23
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
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Alice Munro
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#24
“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
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Charlaine Harris
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#25
“Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
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Dang Thuy Tram
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#26
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
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Thomas Paine,
A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
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#27
“The human heart will never wrinkle.”
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Madame de Sévigné,
Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2
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wisdom-quote
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#28
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
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Alice Walker
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inspirational
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#29
“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
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Mo Willems,
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
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“A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?”
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Markus Zusak,
The Book Thief
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