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  • #1
    Johnny Depp
    “if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
    Johnny Depp

  • #2
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

  • #5
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #6
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #7
    Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
    “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #8
    Roald Dahl
    “Two rights don't equal a left.”
    Roald Dahl, The BFG

  • #9
    Roald Dahl
    “We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.”
    Roald Dahl, The BFG

  • #10
    Roald Dahl
    “I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'

    Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.

    'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.”
    Roald Dahl, The BFG

  • #11
    “Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”
    —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #12
    Shel Silverstein
    “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

  • #13
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #14
    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #16
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #17
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    Margaret Mitchell

  • #18
    E.Y. Harburg
    “My heart wants roots
    My mind wants wings.
    I cannot bear
    Their bickerings.”
    E. Y. Harburg

  • #19
    James Joyce
    “I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.”
    James Joyce



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