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“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Gay kids aren’t a “plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they’re a minority, and they don’t deserve the same rights as straights, that they’re going to grow up in a world that despises them, that the intolerance of humanity will never change, that they’re worthless. It’s not true.”
― Sarah Diemer

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
― Louis Menand

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison