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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

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

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

“Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person.”
― Reddit user coolstoryreddit

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
― Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Œuvres complètes

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi