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#1

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

tags: inspiration, love, story-people

3008 likes

#2

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

tags: strength, worry

4875 likes

#3

“In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’s soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.”
― Donna Tartt

tags: books, movies, writing

41 likes

#4

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

2240 likes

#5

“I have loved you so much," she told me.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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#6

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

18047 likes

#7

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

1728 likes

#8

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

1710 likes

#9

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

2275 likes

#10

“Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

tags: belief, desire, fear

121 likes

#11

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

4611 likes

#12

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3067 likes

#13

“He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

tags: fever-series, jericho-barrons

1390 likes

#14

“Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

50 likes

#15

“But to be most effective, the faces of the children would need to be painted in a blur, the way all children’s faces truly are. For they blur as they run; they blur as they grow and change so fast; and they blur to keep us from loving them too deeply, for their protection, and also for ours.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

4 likes

#16

“One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

47 likes

#17

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: life

59 likes

#18

“What disease cannot do, people accomplish with astonishing ease.”
― Meg Elison, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

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#19

“Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

1763 likes

#20

“Wisdom is not bestowed. In its raw state, it is the heartbreak of knowing things you wish you didn't.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

64 likes

#21

“How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

90 likes

#22

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

791 likes

#23

“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

tags: education, knowledge, learning, right-to-education, right-to-information

146 likes

#24

“But human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity, as I've realized these past few years.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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#25

“You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.”
― Anonymous

tags: islam, quran, religion

10 likes

#26

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: history, truth

1182 likes

#27

“It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

78 likes

#28

“It is an act of violence when an adult yells at a child, all adults know that deep down, because all adults were once little. Yet we still do it. Time after time, we fail at being human beings.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

63 likes

#29

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

2408 likes

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