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  • #1
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #2
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #3
    Judy Blundell
    “I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?”
    Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied

  • #4
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

  • #5
    Jamie O'Neill
    “I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.”
    Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys

  • #6
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #7
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #8
    Lauren DeStefano
    “Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.”
    Lauren DeStefano, Wither

  • #9
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “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

  • #10
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #11
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #12
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #13
    Patrick Ness
    Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #14
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #15
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #16
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #17
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #21
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #22
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

  • #23
    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

  • #24
    Edward Lear
    “And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
    They danced by the light of the moon.”
    Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

  • #25
    James Joyce
    “And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
    James Joyce

  • #26
    “I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”
    Jenny Downham, Before I Die
    tags: love

  • #27
    Hannah Moskowitz
    “I could totally be a . . .
    whatever.”
    “Sailor?”
    “On a boat?”
    “Yep.”
    “Yeah.” He’ll sigh all wistfully. “I could be a sailor. But I’m too busy being a fish.”
    Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth
    tags: humor

  • #28
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #29
    Jack London
    “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
    Jack London

  • #30
    Seamus Heaney
    “A four foot box, a foot for every year.”
    Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist



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