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  • #183
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #184
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I hold it true, whate'er befall;
    I feel it when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.

    Verse XXVII
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

  • #185
    Alfred Tennyson
    “The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.”
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • #186
    Charles Baxter
    “There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.”
    Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love
    tags: love

  • #187
    “You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.”
    Marian Wright Edelman

  • #188
    Edward Everett Hale
    “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”
    Edward Everett Hale

  • #189
    Marian Keyes
    “What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.”
    Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

  • #190
    Mark Helprin
    “A good river is nature's life work in song.”
    Mark Helprin, Freddy and Fredericka

  • #191
    “I've taken up meditation. I like to have an espresso first to make it more challenging.”
    Betsy Salkind
    tags: humor

  • #192
    Richard Strauss
    “Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a brief glance to give an important cue.”
    Richard Strauss

  • #193
    Stephanie Kallos
    “Love? It's when you don't give a thought to all the ifs and want-to's in the world. It's when if all the fires of hell were between you, you'd walk in them gladly to be with him, and sing with joy at your own burnin' if only his kiss was on your mouth.”
    Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You
    tags: love

  • #194
    Franz Kafka
    “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #195
    Martha Graham
    “Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
    Martha Graham

  • #196
    Margaret George
    “When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.”
    Margaret George, Helen of Troy
    tags: love

  • #197
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #198
    Markus Zusak
    “They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #199
    Markus Zusak
    “I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #200
    Christopher Moore
    “Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
    Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

  • #201
    Christopher Moore
    “She pulled down the blanket and aimed baby Sophie's bottom at him like she might unleash a fusillade of weapons-grade poopage such as the guileless Beta Male had never seen.”
    Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
    tags: humor

  • #202
    Stef Penney
    “He smiled to show he meant no offense, but Scott takes offense like it is going out of style, and bristled.”
    Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves

  • #203
    Charles Dickens
    “Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

    Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #204
    Roald Dahl
    “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
    Roald Dahl, The Witches

  • #205
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #206
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #207
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #208
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #209
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #210
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #211
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  • #212
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind



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