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  • #1
    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    David Sedaris
    “If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
    David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

  • #11
    Peter S. Beagle
    “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
    Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Cathy Guisewite
    “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
    Cathy Guiswite

  • #16
    Rodney Dangerfield
    “I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”
    Rodney Dangerfield

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Ilya horyas men carë úvië ná i carë lúmenen yan me ná antaina”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #18
    Brandon Sanderson
    “There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #19
    Brandon Sanderson
    “But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #20
    T. Kingfisher
    If I were a man, I would fight him.
    If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men…
    She stared at her fingers curled into the dirt. It did not matter. They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.
    Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
    T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

  • #21
    T. Kingfisher
    “It was the dogs she wanted. Perhaps she might have built a man out of bones, but she had no love of men any longer.
    Dogs, though…dogs were always true.”
    T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

  • #22
    T. Kingfisher
    “Lots of people deserve to die,” said the dust-wife finally. “Not everybody deserves to be a killer.”
    T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

  • #23
    Susanna Clarke
    “Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
    Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

  • #24
    “As if gaining weight was something unkind I had done to them personally, a betrayal. At what point did I promise to stay 17 for the rest of my life?”
    Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #26
    R.F. Kuang
    “That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #27
    R.F. Kuang
    “English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #28
    R.F. Kuang
    “Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”,’ said Griffin. ‘We do not want to be nice.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #29
    R.F. Kuang
    “But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #30
    R.F. Kuang
    “Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel



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