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  • #1
    Brian  Andreas
    “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

  • #2
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #3
    Donna Tartt
    “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

  • #4
    Mary Renault
    “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

  • #5
    Jacqueline Harpman
    “I have loved you so much," she told me.”
    Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

  • #6
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #7
    Willa Cather
    “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
    Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

  • #8
    “Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
    Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

  • #9
    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

  • #10
    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.”
    Jean de La Fontaine

  • #11
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #12
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    James Baldwin

  • #13
    Karen Marie Moning
    “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

  • #14
    Gregory Maguire
    “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

  • #15
    Gregory Maguire
    “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

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: life

  • #18
    Meg Elison
    “What disease cannot do, people accomplish with astonishing ease.”
    Meg Elison, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

  • #19
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

  • #20
    Angeline Boulley
    “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

  • #21
    Jodi Picoult
    “How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?”
    Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

  • #22
    Jacqueline Harpman
    “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

  • #23
    Jacqueline Harpman
    “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

  • #24
    Jacqueline Harpman
    “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

  • #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

  • #26
    James Joyce
    “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #27
    Omar El Akkad
    “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

  • #28
    Fredrik Backman
    “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

  • #29
    James Joyce
    “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses



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