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  • #1
    Stacy Schiff
    “For three months of the year they could not be certain what year they were living in. Because the pope approved the Gregorian calendar, New England rejected it, stubbornly continuing to date the start of the new year to March 25.”
    Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692

  • #2
    Stacy Schiff
    “When Witches assaulted their first victims in Salem village, it was 1691 in North America, 1692 in Europe.”
    Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692

  • #3
    Tomi Adeyemi
    “I teach you to be warriors in the garden so you will never be gardeners in the war.”
    Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion...Chance encounters are what keep us going.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “I'm the lonely voyager standing on the deck, and she's the sea.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #7
    Haruki Murakami
    “Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #8
    Haruki Murakami
    “The purity of her beauty gives me a feeling close to sadness - a very natural feeling, though one only something extraordinary could produce.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish life was not so short...Languages take such a time and so do all things one wishes to know about.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Or, There And Back Again

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf. 'But it is the last road,' said Bilbo.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #16
    Haruki Murakami
    “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #18
    Haruki Murakami
    “But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
    Haruki Murakami

  • #19
    Haruki Murakami
    “Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Shěn Fù
    “We grow thin in the shadows of Autumn, but chrysanthemums grow fat with dew.”
    Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life

  • #26
    Shěn Fù
    “The world is so vast, but still everyone looks up at the same moon”
    Fu Shen, Six Records of a Floating Life



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