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  • #1
    Brian Froud
    “I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.”
    Brian Froud

  • #2
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #3
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.”
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • #4
    Charlie Chaplin
    “Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
    Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter Geraldine

  • #5
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #6
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #7
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  • #8
    Suzanne Finnamore
    “Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.”
    Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

  • #9
    Shannon L. Alder
    “I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point of view because deep down you know you can’t win. It’s better to assert yourself and tell the person you are moving on without them and why, rather than leave a lasting impression of cowardness on your part in a person’s mind by avoiding them.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #10
    Diane Setterfield
    “But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.”
    Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

  • #11
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others.”
    Shannon Alder

  • #12
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #13
    Jeffrey McDaniel
    “I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
    but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
    so far, without spilling a drop.”
    Jeffrey McDaniel

  • #14
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #15
    Madeleine de Scudéry
    “Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
    Madeleine de Scudéry

  • #16
    Charlotte Featherstone
    “It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.”
    Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #18
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #19
    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    John Green

  • #20
    Lana Del Rey
    “No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”
    Lana Del Rey

  • #21
    J. Courtney Sullivan
    “She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.”
    J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

  • #22
    Mona Simpson
    “I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.”
    Mona Simpson

  • #23
    Nina Guilbeau
    “Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now.”
    Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters

  • #24
    J.S.B. Morse
    “It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.”
    J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

  • #25
    “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.”
    Dave Isay, All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

  • #26
    J.S.B. Morse
    “If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.”
    J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

  • #27
    Aria Cunningham
    “So many times during the day, Helen had seen a dark presence take hold of the prince, as though he was haunted by some dire purpose or secret too terrible to bear. As she stared up into his almond eyes, she saw it again, this time recognizing the darkness for what it was: the same abandonment she felt ripping her heart in pieces.”
    Aria Cunningham, The Princess of Sparta

  • #28
    Kevin McLeod
    “Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected by any armour.”
    Kevin McLeod, The Viking's Apprentice

  • #29
    Michelle Latiolais
    “She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.”
    Michelle Latiolais, Widow: Stories

  • #30
    Michelle Latiolais
    “...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs, flooding across the rough wooden floor, down the narrow wooden stairs and out into the old soil of the garden. No roses, no, she does not even ask to make roses, just dissolution; most any night she asks just for that.”
    Michelle Latiolais, Widow: Stories



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