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  • #1
    Marguerite Duras
    “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
    Marguerite Duras

  • #2
    Simone Elkeles
    “But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
    Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

  • #3
    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    Lev Grossman, The Magicians

  • #4
    Katharine Hepburn
    “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
    Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

  • #5
    Malcolm X
    “I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.”
    Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • #6
    Anne Fadiman
    “I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.”
    Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

  • #7
    Criss Jami
    “Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #8
    Fredrik Backman
    “The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more.”
    Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

  • #9
    Lori Deschene
    “At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.”
    Lori Deschene



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