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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“When my walls start to crumble, I'm so damn frightened of what's behind them that I fix them straight back up again. Basically, I'm a mess...”
― Sara Foster, Beneath the Shadows

“If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“She’s not the kind of girl you choose your battles for. She’s the kind of girl you fight to the death for.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
― Aristotle

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“God, if I can't have what I want, let me want what I have.”
― Anonymous

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...”
― Roald Dahl

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.”
― A.A. Milne

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“The journey, Not the destination matters...”
― T.S. Eliot

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“It’s funny how fast life can go by without realizing those special memories remain frozen in time like portraits on a wall.”
― Andre Gonzalez

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“How many have died, exactly? People and faeries?” “Twelve,” said Emma. “Twelve dead bodies.” Tavvy emerged from under the table. “Were they all running with lollipops?” Ty looked baffled, Emma guilty, Tavvy slightly lip-wobbly. “Maybe that’s enough for now,” Julian said,”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Multiple experiments with spirit contact transmitted the name Matthew Edward Hall on several occasions. I predict this to be a very important future individual in humanities development. Possibly the second embodiment of Christ on Earth.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931: In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and Chicago

“I don’t believe in miracles,” Jean said. “I have enough faith for us both,” Renee promised”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“Impossible to be alone inside something living & listening. ”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo