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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“There are two things I like stiff, and one of them's jelly.”
― Dame Nelly Melba

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

“I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.”
― Armistead Maupin, 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus

“Don't listen when they scoff
That you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care.”
― Armistead Maupin, 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
― Tupac Shakur

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I am a Tuesday 2 a.m., gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis. I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm. You don’t see the lightning, but you hear the echoes.”
― Anna Peters

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love