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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception. ”
― Alfred de Musset

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

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.”
― Anna Wintour

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

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

“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
― Coco Chanel

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Babe!” Ranger shouted from the bathroom. “Come get your grandmother.” Ranger was standing in the glass-enclosed shower with the door open, looking out at Grandma. He was dripping wet and seemed not especially concerned that he was naked. “It’s like she’s paralyzed,” he said. “Amazing,” Grandma said, eyes wide, staring in unblinking stupefaction. I yanked Grandma out and closed the bathroom door. “It was mesmerizing,” Grandma said. “It was like staring into the eye of a cobra. I don’t care if I do anything else on the bucket list. This was awesome. It was like a biblical experience.”
― Janet Evanovich, Top Secret Twenty-one

“I looked down at my bloody shirt and jeans. “My face hurts all over,” I said to Ranger. “Where’s all the blood coming from?” “You’re getting a bruise on your cheek. You have a small cut on your lower lip. You were bleeding from your nose, but that seems to have stopped. You have a puncture wound on your neck.” “I’m a mess!” Ranger wrapped his arms around me and held me close. “You’re beautiful. You evacuated the hotel and you delivered Vlatko.”
― Janet Evanovich, Top Secret Twenty-one

“It was mesmerizing,” Grandma said. “It was like staring into the eye of a cobra. I don’t care if I do anything else on the bucket list. This was awesome. It was like a biblical experience.”
― Janet Evanovich, Top Secret Twenty-one

“As I ran water to wash my hands, my earbud fell out of my ear and went down the drain.
"Crap!"
I hauled my cellphone out of my bag and texted Ranger. Bad news. Your earbud just went down the drain in the ladies room.
It was only a matter of time, he textd back.”
― Janet Evanovich, Top Secret Twenty-One

“We took the stairs to the second floor and ran into Dillan Ruddick, the building super. He had a wet vac going, sucking up water from the soggy hall carpet.
'Thanks for saving my apartment,' I said to him.
'No problemo,' Dillan said. 'I've got it down to a science. The alarm goes off and I run straight to your apartment and grab the fire extinguishers.”
― Janet Evanovich, Top Secret Twenty-One

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