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#1

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire

1771 likes

#2

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

22513 likes

#4

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

3088 likes

#5

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

13967 likes

#7

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
― Samuel Butler

1097 likes

#8

“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”
― Rachel Gibson, I'm In No Mood For Love

tags: romance

53 likes

#9

“No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”
― Claire LaZebnik, Epic Fail

tags: family, normalcy

272 likes

#10

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

8701 likes

#11

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135579 likes

#12

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, science

11409 likes

#13

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham-lincoln, religion

2628 likes

#14

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

tags: books, obsession

2336 likes

#15

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18873 likes

#16

“I realized that the one person who could break my heart is the only one who should have it.”
― Julie James, Just the Sexiest Man Alive

525 likes

#17

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

5868 likes

#18

“Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.”
― Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 6

tags: humor, inspirational-life

182 likes

#19

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

5544 likes

#20

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: home, love, relationships, touching

7281 likes

#21

“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: couples

1211 likes

#22

“I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: humor

1039 likes

#23

“Boys turns girls into such idiots.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

1276 likes

#24

“I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

1769 likes

#25

“Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: young-adult-fiction

974 likes

#26

“I don't want to feel this way around him. I want things to be normal. I want to be his friend, not another stupid girl holding out for something that will never happen.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

605 likes

#27

“I wish for the thing that is best for me.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

1026 likes

#28

“Madame Guillotine gets mad at me. Not because I told them to shove it, but because I didn’t say it in French. What is wrong with this school?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

443 likes

#29

“I moan with pleasure.
"Did you just have a foodgasm?" he asks, wiping ricotta from his lips.
"Where have you been all my life?" I ask the beautiful panini.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: eating

472 likes

#30

“Please. The boy gets a boner every time you walk into the room."
My eyes pop back open. Does she mean that figuratively or has she actually seen something? No. Focus, Anna.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

431 likes

#31

“Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: english-boys

610 likes

#32

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen

tags: indifference, misanthrope, social-anxiety

1071 likes

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