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#1

“Imora Thea Mi Savur ”
― Sherrylin Kenyon

#2

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends, humor, people

8990 likes

#3

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: amor-deliria-nervosa, love

4704 likes

#4

“This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.”
― Marianne Curley, Old Magic

70 likes

#5

“He says, "I have loved you since the first moment I saw you. I wanted you then, and when I thought you didn't want me, I turned my love into hate."

"Ethan..." Before I say another word his mouth comes down over mine and he kisses me.”
― Marianne Curley, The Key

44 likes

#6

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

1653 likes

#7

“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction

2572 likes

#8

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: inspirational-life

4012 likes

#9

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

1366 likes

#10

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

tags: books, reading

2193 likes

#11

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109338 likes

#12

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

2358 likes

#13

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: truth

16384 likes

#14

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

tags: education, ethics

2917 likes

#15

“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

tags: writing

535 likes

#16

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
― E.B. White

255 likes

#17

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: inspirational-quotes

10269 likes

#18

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

tags: silence

1219 likes

#19

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

5078 likes

#20

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

tags: hope

4017 likes

#21

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

1654 likes

#22

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

1683 likes

#23

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

tags: women

8247 likes

#24

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

tags: optimism, pessimism

2215 likes

#25

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

4364 likes

#26

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

1618 likes

#27

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

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

7231 likes

#28

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

1961 likes

#29

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: heroes, inspirational

2863 likes

#30

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

2182 likes

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