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“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“It is morals that help us make the laws, but morals do not help us apply them.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“perceive that fear rushes into the spaces left when confidence flees, when a woman realizes that she is no longer a person of any particular importance or authority, as she had long been allowed to believe. It has tipped the balance of the world in an uncanny way.”
― Susan Rivers, The Second Mrs. Hockaday

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

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Like even when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Reading shapes a person. The landscape of books is more real, in some ways, than the one outside the window. It isn’t experienced at a remove; it is internal, vital.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“Nobody tells you that to grieve is to shoulder the expectations of others. The requirement is that you mourn in silence, cloak yourself in dignity and make others comfortable. I do not know how. Therefore I grieve out loud.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

“quote is by Washington Irving. It goes: “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

“With people, we fall in love too easily, it seems, and too easily fall out of love. But with the land it’s different. We abide much.”
― William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

“And what was the point of Charlie’s life or anyone’s but to run its course and serve its purpose, though that purpose might remain a mystery?”
― William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

“There are wounds that never really heal, no matter how much time they take.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“Gran was telling me how to pronounce “jambon aux beurre,” the French name for a ham and butter sandwich.”
― Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

“But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“DRUMMER: It’s your place, innit. It’s the place where everything smells right. It’s where you know all the nooks and crannies. It’s what you fought for, or what your father fought for, and when you’re there you feel safe and strong and it’s the place where, when you fight, you win.”
― Tamsin Oglesby, The Mouse and His Child

“well but some things, maybe, are truer than others, for example…agh”
― Tamsin Oglesby, The Mouse and His Child

“It’s always hope that ruins everything”
― Ingvild H. Rishøi, Brightly Shining

“They believed in him. They had looked at him in his yachting shoes”
― Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

“Beginnings could happen more than once”
― Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry