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  • #121
    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    Philip José Farmer

  • #122
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #123
    “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
    Lady Gaga

  • #124
    Nicholas Sparks
    “They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #125
    Suzanne Collins
    “I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #126
    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

  • #127
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”
    Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

  • #128
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “You smell good, too,” said Patch

    It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”

    Naked. I know the drill.”
    Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

  • #129
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “You possess other people's...bodies."

    He accepted that statement with a nod.

    "Do you want to possess my body?"

    "I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.”
    Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

  • #130
    Tabitha Suzuma
    “You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.”
    Tabitha Suzuma, Hurt

  • #131
    Tabitha Suzuma
    “Within the grand scale of things, sitting in a classroom day after day is so utterly meaningless and pointless that it actually makes his chest hurt to think about it.”
    Tabitha Suzuma, Hurt
    tags: school

  • #132
    Tabitha Suzuma
    “In some indefinable way he felt drawn to her, as if he already knew her, as if they had been close friends, soulmates even, somewhere in a previous existence. Her mere presence seemed to calm his thoughts, saving him from the vicissitudes of his mind. She appeared before him as familiar, a kindred spirit. Perhaps it was something in her face, her eyes. She seemed to know . . . what, exactly, he was not sure. She seemed to understand. Or rather, he had detected in her the capacity to understand.”
    Tabitha Suzuma, Hurt

  • #133
    Tabitha Suzuma
    “He was always meant to fall in love with her and have his love returned. He feels light – so light, all dark thoughts erased, replaced instead by excitement and amazement and a happiness so pure it threatens to take his breath away.”
    Tabitha Suzuma, Hurt

  • #134
    Tabitha Suzuma
    “School is a pile of crap. School has always been a pile of crap – he had just never bothered to think about it until today.”
    Tabitha Suzuma, Hurt
    tags: school

  • #135
    Tabitha Suzuma
    “He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes as if their life depended on it. All for what? he wants to shout. To get into the top university, so that you can somehow convince yourself you are better than the great unwashed? So that your parents can convince themselves that they are better parents than the great unwashed? So that Mum and Dad’s fourteen-hour days at the office, paying for a fucking private education you never asked for, wasn’t just a pathetic waste of a life?”
    Tabitha Suzuma, Hurt

  • #136
    Phyllis Diller
    “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #137
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #138
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #139
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #140
    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #141
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #142
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #143
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #144
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #145
    Lewis Carroll
    “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.”
    Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

  • #146
    C. JoyBell C.
    “I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #147
    John Wilmot
    “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”
    John Wilmot

  • #148
    Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles
    “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
    Prevost Abbe, Manon Lescaut

  • #149
    Ian Morgan Cron
    “A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so that he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, how to know what love requires, and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure.”
    Ian Morgan Cron, Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir. . . of Sorts

  • #150
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry



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