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  • #1
    Ocean Vuong
    “Writing, if nothing else, is a bridge between two people, a bridge made of language. And language belongs to all of us. If I enjoy a poem, that just means I am recognizing within it something of myself, something I must already possess. Therefore, to love a poem is to love a part of myself revealed to me by another person…”
    Ocean Vuong

  • #2
    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    Zadie Smith

  • #3
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
    I am not a muse.
    I am the somebody.
    End of fucking story.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #4
    Gail Honeyman
    “A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who's wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable? I think that it is perfectly normal to talk to oneself occasionally. It's not as though I'm expecting a reply. I'm fully aware that Polly is a houseplant.”
    Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  • #5
    Gail Honeyman
    “These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.”
    Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  • #6
    Victoria Schwab
    “Word of mouth was its own kind of magic.”
    Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

  • #7
    Alice Feeney
    “If every story had a happy ending, then we’d have no reason to start again. Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart. Which we all do. Even the people who pretend they don’t.”
    Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

  • #8
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #9
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #10
    Jasmine Warga
    “This may sound weird, but there are certain songs, like really great songs---you don't just listen to them, you know? They make you feel like they're listening back. Like the person who wrote the song heard you. Music makes you feel less alone in that way. It's proof that someone out there has felt the exact same way you do and they've managed to capture it in this perfect blend of words and sound.”
    Jasmine Warga, Here We Are Now

  • #11
    Gail Honeyman
    “If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
    Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  • #12
    Celeste Ng
    “...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them.”
    Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

  • #13
    Fredrik Backman
    “People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
    Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

  • #14
    Colleen Hoover
    “Apologies are good for admitting regret, but they do very little in removing the truth from the actions that caused the regret.”
    Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

  • #15
    Patrick Ness
    “What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did.”
    Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #17
    Paula Hawkins
    “The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #18
    Hiro Arikawa
    “If you have to consider what’s going to happen after you die, life becomes doubly troublesome.”
    Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

  • #19
    Jojo Moyes
    “You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #20
    Jojo Moyes
    “I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #21
    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #22
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #23
    Morgan Matson
    “I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”
    Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

  • #24
    Jay Asher
    “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
    Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

  • #25
    Bob Ong
    “Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa.”
    Bob Ong

  • #26
    Mother Teresa
    “God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #27
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #28
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #29
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
    Stephen King, Night Shift



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