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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

“Love is strange. One minute you're jungle fever. The next you're Arctic winter.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.”
― E. Lockhart, The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

“And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
― John Donne, The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

“No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”
― Claire LaZebnik, Epic Fail

“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

“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

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“In that moment i realize a circle of love is ten times better than a procession of sorrys.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“My reflection tells one story.
My heart, a different one.

The difference is,
hearts don't lie.
Mirrors do.”
― Lisa Schroeder, Chasing Brooklyn

“Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“Some mornings,
it's hard to get
out of bed.

Sleep lures you
like a stranger
with a piece of candy.

Follow me.
It will be okay.
I promise.

You know better,
but still you follow,
because you really do
love candy.”
― Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before

“Maybe it's not about determination
or love
or how hard
you can fight
Maybe it's just bout fate
and what
is meant to be”
― Lisa Schroeder, Far from You

“When you meet someone so different from yourself, in a GOOD way, you don't even have to kiss to have fireworks go off. It's like fireworks in your heart all the time.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez