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“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“I am a runaway, lost at sea.
I am a broken bird, yearning to fly free.
I am a sinner, unworthy and unholy.
I am a rose, wilting slowly.
I am a raindrop, touching your cheek.
I am a child who plays hide and seek.
I am nothing, and yet I am everything.
I am contradictions and complexities.
I am a face with a hundred entities.
I am love and I am hate.
I am the voice that cannot communicate.
I am a melody, haunting and sad.
I am a soul that has slowly gone mad.
I am death in a living body.
I am a dangerous opium poppy.
I am rage, running through my veins.
I am pain, bound in chains.
I am isolation, imprisoned in my mind.
I am abandoned and left behind.
I am tenderness, soft and kind.
I am trust, naïve and blind.
I am remorse, shattered and frozen.
I am the path I have not chosen.
I am sadness, drowning in an ocean.
I am faith, yearning for devotion.
I am madness, rebellious and wild.
I am sanity, safely filed.
I am wisdom, cursed and blessed.
I am a name that will burn in your chest. I am a journey, destination unknown.
I am a heart turned to stone.
I am forever alone.”
― Mina Alexia

“Draugs nav laba grāmata, ko kurā katrā laikā arī nemazgātām rokām var noņemt no plaukta, lai bagātinātu vientuļu vakara stundu, izkliedētu garlaicību, atrastu sapratēju. Draudzība ir dvēseļu mijiedarbības skaistākais, vārīgākais, rūpīgi kopjamais zieds, kas, ja tam nepievērš pietiekami vērības, nonīkuļo un nokalst, vēl iekām pilnīgi uzziedējis. Ir vārdi, kas satur indi, un drausmi ir, ka izrunāto vārdu nevar paņemt atpakaļ. Kā indīga bulta tas reizēm aizķeras dvēselē un aizdzen to bojā. Bet ir arī vārdi, kuros apslēpts burvju spēks. No viena maza vārda nonīkusi dvēsele var atspirgt, atjaunoties, – sākt ziedēt visiem pavasara ziediem reizē.

Tu pacietīgi izturi arī tās drauga īpašības, kas, ja ir citiem, tevi pilda ar īgnumu. Draugs ir nevis labu īpašību katalogs, bet dzīvs cilvēks, kura negatīvās īpašības tu tikpat labi pazīsti kā pozitīvās, nesaslejoties pret tām.

Ja draugs no tevis aiziet tādēļ, ka tu žāvājoties muti neaizklāj ar roku, tad neskumsti par to. Kā ir malu mednieki, tā ir malu draugi, kas tver tikai tavas būtības ārējās malas. Ar tiem jauki pakavēties vienu otru stundu, bet dvēseli viņi nebagātina, ziemas vidū nespēj ienest pavasari, pusnaktī neaizdedzina gaismu.”
― Zenta Mauriņa

“Klusums ir pilns mūzikas. Klusumā sāk skanēt dvēsele.”
― Zenta Maurina

“It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“But even though I know my flaws are many (many many many), and there are always ways I could be better, and I should never stop working for that—I also need to give myself a break. I can cut myself some slack sometimes. Because I’m a work in progress. Because nobody is perfect. At least I acknowledge the mistakes I’ve made, and am making. At least I’m trying. That means something, doesn’t it?
And just because I have room for improvement doesn’t mean I’m worthless, or that I have nothing to offer to, like, the world.”
― Hannah Harrington, Speechless

“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

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

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“To those who will see, the world waits.”
― Libba Bray

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart.”
― Tosca Lee, Havah: The Story of Eve

“And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.”
― Tosca Lee, Havah: The Story of Eve

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? ”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

“If a man truly loves,....He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.”
― Juliet Marillier, Cybele's Secret