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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #2
    Edith Wharton
    “Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”
    Edith Wharton

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #7
    Kate Chopin
    “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #8
    Peter S. Beagle
    “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

  • #9
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
    Charlotte Bronte

  • #10
    Raymond Carver
    Late Fragment

    And did you get what
    you wanted from this life, even so?
    I did.
    And what did you want?
    To call myself beloved, to feel myself
    beloved on the earth.”
    Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall

  • #11
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #12
    Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #12
    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #13
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #16
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #17
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #18
    Kerry Cohen
    “I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.”
    Kerry Cohen, Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

  • #19
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #20
    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “Elizabeth: "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?"
    Darcy: "They belong to you, Miss Bennett.”
    Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

  • #21
    Jack London
    “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
    Jack London, The Call of the Wild

  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #23
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #24
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
    Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

  • #25
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #26
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

  • #27
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #28
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    Oscar Wilde



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