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“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

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

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

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

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

“The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu

“Hermes, the Psychopomp.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold