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“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“The first step ... shall be to lose the way.”
― Galway Kinnell

“There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”
― Jim Morrison

“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. I’m neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous - lava, inflammable, unrestrained.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.”
― Robert Holden

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“It was a sad day… the day your kind came to these shores. Take everything you do… the lands, the forests… and in return you poison and pollute the air we breathe and the waters we sip. The beasts, they flee… as you endeavour to quench your greed.”
― William D. Batts, The Tales of Willowdean Forest: Short Stories

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“When twins are seperated, their spirits steal away to find the other”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“I only want impossible things," she said roughly. "The others don't interest me.”
― Willa Cather, Song of the Lark

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

“Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to find love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now,”
― M. Weidenbenner, Fractured Not Broken: a Memoir

“On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure more, I remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days has been 100%. And that’s pretty good. Unknown”
― M. Weidenbenner, Fractured Not Broken: a Memoir

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain