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  • #1
    Aisha Tyler
    “Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
    Aisha Tyler

  • #2
    Anna Harriette Leonowens
    “We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand;”
    Anna Harriette Leonowens, The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

  • #3
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #4
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    Annie Dillard, The Living

  • #5
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    George Carlin

  • #6
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #7
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #8
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #9
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #10
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #11
    Paula Hawkins
    “I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #12
    Paula Hawkins
    “Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

    (This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #13
    Paula Hawkins
    “When did you become so weak?” I don’t know. I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #14
    Paula Hawkins
    “let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers.”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #15
    Paula Hawkins
    “I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts. Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #16
    Scott Snyder
    “Never have them, Reg. I swear, you're never free. You LOVE them too much. It's like a vital organ walked out of your body and is out there waving hi to people and you fear for it all day, EVERY day, because if something happened to it...”
    Scott Snyder, Wytches, Volume 1

  • #17
    Erich Segal
    “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
    Erich Segal

  • #18
    Warren Ellis
    “By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”
    Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

  • #19
    Jon Ronson
    “But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #20
    Jon Ronson
    “The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #21
    Jon Ronson
    “We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #22
    Jon Ronson
    “[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #23
    Jon Ronson
    “As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed,” he said, “the whole thing crumbles.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #24
    Jon Ronson
    “A lot of people move around in life chronically ashamed of how they look, or how they feel, or what they said, or what they did. It’s like a permanent adolescent concern. Adolescence is when you’re permanently concerned about what other people think of you.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #25
    Jon Ronson
    “If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #26
    Jon Ronson
    “As somebody back then wrote, “Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #27
    Jon Ronson
    “An apology is supposed to be a communion—a coming together. For someone to make an apology, someone has to be listening. They listen and you speak and there’s an exchange. That’s why we have a thing about accepting apologies.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #28
    Jon Ronson
    “I’d been beguiled by the new technology—a toddler crawling toward a gun.”
    Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

  • #29
    Jim  Butcher
    “I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people.”
    Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

  • #30
    Ray Bradbury
    “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451



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