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#1

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast-brilliant, insults

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#2

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

179058 likes

#3

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39373 likes

#4

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27977 likes

#5

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: fantasy, humor, scifi

23533 likes

#6

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: life

3605 likes

#7

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8236 likes

#8

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

11458 likes

#9

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

2666 likes

#10

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

26123 likes

#11

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

37325 likes

#12

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: life, poetry

2061 likes

#13

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

3308 likes

#14

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

tags: life

1010 likes

#15

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

714 likes

#16

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

3847 likes

#17

“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being temporary, is a kind of pleasure.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty

9 likes

#18

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4233 likes

#19

“There’s a group that calls itself the Sarmy-or Sylar’s Army- and it’s dedicated to the support of my character, and they don’t like it when he’s disparaged. Their slogan is “Every villain needs a legion of evil supporters.” But what’s funny is they do great charity work. It’s never bad to have an army.”
― Zachary Quinto

tags: sarmy, sylar, sylar-s-army, zachary-quinto

5 likes

#20

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7903 likes

#21

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio

3804 likes

#22

“Just when you think you're having a scene without Simon, he drops in to remind you that everyone else is a supporting character in his catastrophe.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

621 likes

#23

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz, carry-on, love

1136 likes

#24

“(People who tell you that slamming and bashing into things won't make you feel better haven't slammed or bashed enough.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

151 likes

#25

“He swallows. Snow has the longest neck and the showiest swallow I've ever seen. His chin juts out and his Adam's apple catches - it's a whole scene.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz, carry-on, simon, ugh

66 likes

#26

“You're so alive, Simon Snow. You got my share of it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

113 likes

#27

“I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I'm living a charmed life.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

799 likes

#28

“What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."
He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?"
"I love it." He says
"Why?"
"Because we match.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: adorable, love, mess, romance

1010 likes

#29

“He’s a book full of footnotes brought to life. He’s a jacket made of elbow patches.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

254 likes

#30

“He smiled and looked away. 'Sometimes I think we're the same person...but we just got accidentally split into two before we were born.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

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