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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.”
― Alice Mackenzie Swaim

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.”
― Alice M. Swaim

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“I'm telling you, it's fu**ing hard to be classy”
― Janet Evanovich, One for the Money

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
― L.J. Smith