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#1

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

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#2

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

3495 likes

#3

“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

1163 likes

#4

“People want you to be ordinary.”
― Robert Crais, The Last Detective

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#5

“Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.”
― James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending

tags: humor, insanity, louisiana

103 likes

#6

“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

tags: meaning, purpose

217 likes

#7

“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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#8

“Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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#9

“Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

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#10

“Geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
― Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children

tags: genius

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#11

“Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

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#12

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

tags: life

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#13

“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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#14

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

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#15

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: ideas

2080 likes

#16

“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”
― Sue Grafton, T is for Trespass

tags: change, drama, kinsey-milhone, poor-baby, sue-grafton, sympathy

476 likes

#17

“Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?”
― Kathy Reichs, Virals

tags: humor, virals

208 likes

#18

“An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps”
― Kathy Reichs, Virals

tags: humor

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#19

“You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires”
― Kathy Reichs, Seizure

tags: humor

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#20

“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

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#21

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

22598 likes

#22

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

4871 likes

#23

“Anything is possible. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational

401 likes

#24

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

20138 likes

#25

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

16026 likes

#26

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: love

12593 likes

#27

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: wisdom

8884 likes

#28

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

11943 likes

#29

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

4282 likes

#30

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: confidence, honesty

4771 likes

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