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  • #1
    Emily Brontë
    “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #2
    Emily Brontë
    “I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #3
    Emily Brontë
    “I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #4
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #5
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #6
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #7
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #8
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #9
    William Shakespeare
    “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #10
    William Shakespeare
    “To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
    Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
    Must give us pause: there's the respect
    That makes calamity of so long life;”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #13
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

  • #14
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #15
    John Boyle O'Reilly
    “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
    Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
    Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
    Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”
    John Boyle O'Reilly, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly

  • #16
    Paulo Coelho
    “We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #17
    Shel Silverstein
    “The Voice

    There is a voice inside of you
    That whispers all day long,
    "I feel this is right for me,
    I know that this is wrong."
    No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
    Or wise man can decide
    What's right for you--just listen to
    The voice that speaks inside.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #18
    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #19
    Roald Dahl
    “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #20
    David  Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #21
    David  Mitchell
    “Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #22
    David  Mitchell
    “What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
    As I foretold you, were all spirits and
    Are melted into air, into thin air:
    And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
    The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
    The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
    Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
    And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
    Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
    As dreams are made on, and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #24
    William Shakespeare
    “O, wonder!
    How many goodly creatures are there here!
    How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
    That has such people in't!”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #26
    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    S.E. Hinton

  • #27
    Walter Dean Myers
    “Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
    Walter Dean Myers, Slam!

  • #28
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #29
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series

  • #30
    Paulo Coelho
    “If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist



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