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“What matters the most is who you love. Because when everything else is a distant memory, the people you love are all that’s left. And love is the single most important thing we can do in our lives. Give it. Receive it. Teach others how to do it-Gran”
― J. Sterling, The Game Changer

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“He looked at her in complete devotion. “We made a little baby…”

She smiled and giggled. “It wasn’t that hard either, was it?”

“I don’t know about you but I was working pretty hard.”
― Pepper Pace, Beast

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“You asked me in Paris how many
women I'd loved. I said one. I should
have said two." He cupped her cheek,
his thumb rubbing over her bottom lip.
"As a child I loved my mother, and as a
man I love you.”
― Kitty French, Knight & Play

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
― Fiona Apple

“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Haven’t you ever lent your mind to the possibility of stepping out of the world as you know it and into something new…unusual… that can elevate your mind to a place where you can experience a deeper meaning?”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“I’m a man,” he returned with harsher resolve. “Once we get past the title, the frill of my extensive travel and education, the calling on my life that I can’t control, and my family’s socioeconomic status, we can appreciate that I am a hot-blooded man who fights with rigor not to kiss you the way that I want, who struggles against beating his meat every day when I think about your glorious and sinful body while I’m alone, and the man who wants a woman in his bed to defile in each and every way as he chooses. Pastoral image aside, I am a man with carnal need, just one who wants to follow the rules and wait until I’m married to release what I’ve been holding since the day I laid eyes on you.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke