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#1

“Will you sleep with me?" he asked softly, before grinning suddenly. "In the tub?”
― Shelly Crane, Consume

tags: bathroom, clara, eli, humor, tub

#2

“...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.”
― Shelly Crane, Consume

tags: eli, humor, math

16 likes

#3

“Yer in my blood, Saba, he says. Yer in my head. Yer in my breath, yer in my bones...gawd help me, yer everywhere. You have bin since the first moment I set eyes on you.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

470 likes

#4

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

tags: content, materialism

1395 likes

#5

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69680 likes

#6

“Regret is always worse than anxiety ~ chase your dreams.”
― Jamie Magee

35 likes

#7

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

3087 likes

#8

“I love you, Ella May and nothing will ever change that. You can push me away -run away – and I will still love you.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Secret of Ella and Micha

tags: ella-and-micha

144 likes

#9

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4743 likes

#10

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

tags: love

2767 likes

#11

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

3336 likes

#12

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve

2034 likes

#13

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: language, new-year, voice, words

4188 likes

#14

“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

1403 likes

#15

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

1535 likes

#16

“I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t ask this, but knowing everything that you know, do you still want that kiss?”
― Daniele Lanzarotta, Insatiable

tags: blake, mermaid, new-adult-contemporary-romance

8 likes

#17

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

1020 likes

#18

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

3239 likes

#19

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

2066 likes

#20

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

2848 likes

#21

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

1564 likes

#22

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

2272 likes

#23

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

2888 likes

#24

“I don't know. I don't understand how boys think. If I knew that I'd be a millionare.”
― Magan Vernon, The Only One

tags: humor, monica-remy, new-adult, the-only-one

5 likes

#25

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

3093 likes

#26

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

1736 likes

#27

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6641 likes

#28

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5601 likes

#29

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

2869 likes

#30

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

3229 likes

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