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  • #1
    “It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.”
    Kevin Sullivan

  • #2
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen

  • #5
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I want to do something splendid…
    Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
    I think I shall write books.”
    Louisa May Alcott

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #9
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #10
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

  • #11
    Flannery O'Connor
    “People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #12
    Flannery O'Connor
    “A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #13
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #14
    “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
    Thomas Campbell

  • #15
    J.M. Barrie
    “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
    J.M. Barrie

  • #16
    Marcel Proust
    “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #18
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #19
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #20
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #22
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
    Tears from the depths of some devine despair
    Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
    In looking on the happy autumn fields,
    And thinking of the days that are no more.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #23
    Dante Alighieri
    “In that book which is my memory,
    On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
    Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
    Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

  • #24
    Anne Frank
    “Memories mean more to me than dresses.”
    Anne Frank

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #26
    Maya Angelou
    “I sustain myself with the love of family.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #27
    Winston S. Churchill
    “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #28
    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #29
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
    Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

  • #30
    Victor Hugo
    “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
    Victor Hugo



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