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#1

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

tags: kindness, motto

#2

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

366 likes

#3

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

7806 likes

#4

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Roden; Tsukasa Kobayashi; Akane Higashiyama; Hiroshi Takata

tags: inspiration, light, sherlock-holmes

650 likes

#5

“Tell the sun and stars hello for me.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

1268 likes

#6

“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

tags: grace-brisbane, love, sam-roth, shiver

2002 likes

#7

“Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

41 likes

#8

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78360 likes

#9

“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one!”
― John Keats

196 likes

#10

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate

6478 likes

#11

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: demographics

3102 likes

#12

“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

618 likes

#13

“Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

tags: creativity, health, madness

31 likes

#14

“This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: “Love—Eros—makes his home in men’s hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

5 likes

#15

“You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

2749 likes

#16

“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: deity, gods, greek-mythology, immortality, mythology, pain

409 likes

#17

“Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

tags: loki, thor

170 likes

#18

“But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

tags: wisdom

817 likes

#19

“And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

982 likes

#20

“The Greeks created gods that were in their image; warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate, but vengeful.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

63 likes

#21

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

836 likes

#22

“Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: art, beethoven, science

8 likes

#23

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

7424 likes

#24

“I used to think soul mates were two of the same. I used to think I was supposed to look for somebody that was like me. I don't believe in soul mates anymore and I'm not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I'd believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn't, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who's suffering from the same stuff you are.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , Daisy Jones & The Six

1492 likes

#25

“It was easier to tell hero from villain when the stakes were only life and death. Everything in between gets harder.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

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#26

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

2127 likes

#27

“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

178 likes

#28

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

5521 likes

#29

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

2043 likes

#30