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  • #1
    Saša Stanišić
    “Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.
    I self-center you more than ever.”
    Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

  • #2
    Kaui Hart Hemmings
    “That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
    Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

  • #3
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #4
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #5
    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
    “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

  • #6
    “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
    Lauren Conrad

  • #7
    José N. Harris
    “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
    José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

  • #8
    Lisi Harrison
    “She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.”
    Lisi Harrison, Monster High

  • #10
    Jodi Picoult
    “I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Deep in earth my love is lying
    And I must weep alone.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #12
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #13
    Frantz Fanon
    “To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
    Frantz Fanon

  • #14
    Frantz Fanon
    “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
    Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

  • #15
    Frantz Fanon
    “The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.”
    Frantz Fanon

  • #16
    Frantz Fanon
    “The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”
    Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

  • #17
    Frantz Fanon
    “And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.”
    Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

  • #18
    Thomas More
    “For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
    Sir Thomas More, Utopia

  • #19
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #20
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #21
    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #24
    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #25
    Philip K. Dick
    “I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
    Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

  • #26
    Sylvia Plath
    “How we need another soul to cling to.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #27
    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #29
    Roald Dahl
    “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

    A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    Roald Dahl, The Twits

  • #30
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #31
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost



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