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  • #1
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #2
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #3
    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #4
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #5
    A.C. Benson
    “All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality, the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
    Arthur Christopher Benson

  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #7
    David  Mitchell
    “Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #8
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #9
    David  Mitchell
    “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #10
    David  Mitchell
    “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #11
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
    I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
    I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #12
    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    Lev Grossman, The Magicians

  • #13
    Jack London
    “I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
    Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

  • #14
    Kate Morton
    “A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.”
    Kate Morton , The Forgotten Garden

  • #15
    Kate Morton
    “You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.”
    Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

  • #16
    “Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
    Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

  • #17
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #19
    Emily  Murdoch
    “I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.”
    Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me

  • #20
    Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the
    “Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
    Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

  • #21
    Mitch Albom
    “Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”
    Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #23
    Matthew Quick
    “Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
    Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

  • #24
    Matthew Quick
    “I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.”
    Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

  • #25
    Matthew Quick
    “When she needed help most, she was abandoned.”
    Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

  • #26
    Sarah Pekkanen
    “But then again, didn't all marriages carry thousands of hurts? Didn't husbands and wives injure each other all the time, leaving wounds both big and small, with snapped words or forgotten anniversaries or emotional buttons deliberately pushed? But thousands of kindnesses existed in marriages, too. The important thing was that the kindnesses triumphed over the hurts.”
    Sarah Pekkanen, The Best of Us

  • #27
    Paula McLain
    “People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.”
    Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

  • #28
    Paula McLain
    “But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.”
    Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

  • #29
    Neil Gaiman
    “Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #30
    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane



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