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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #3
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #4
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

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

  • #8
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #10
    Sylvain Neuvel
    “If you fall in love with someone, there’s a good chance the person won’t love you back. Hatred, though, is usually mutual. If you despise someone, it’s pretty much a given they’re also not your biggest fan.”
    Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants

  • #11
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #12
    Rainbow Rowell
    “What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."
    He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?"
    "I love it." He says
    "Why?"
    "Because we match.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #13
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
    Stephen King, Night Shift

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #16
    Madeline Miller
    “I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #17
    Madeline Miller
    “You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #18
    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #19
    Donna Tartt
    “There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #20
    Donna Tartt
    “Once, over dinner, Henry was quite startled to learn from me than men had walked on the moon. “No,” he said, putting down his fork.
    “It’s true,” chorused the rest, who had somehow managed to pick this up along the way.
    “I don’t believe it.”
    “I saw it,” said Bunny. “It was on television.”
    “How did they get there? When did this happen?"
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.”
    Stephen King, Needful Things

  • #22
    Rachel Hartman
    “You can't walk away without also walking towards.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #23
    Rachel Hartman
    “To Tess's immeasurable disappointment, she woke up.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #24
    Rachel Hartman
    “It matters less where you go than that you keep moving.”
    Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #26
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

  • #27
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #28
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

  • #29
    Brandon Sanderson
    “People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?”
    Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

  • #30
    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



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