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  • #1
    Charles Dickens
    “So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #2
    Christopher Paolini
    “Without fear there cannot be courage.”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #3
    John Green
    “There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #4
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #5
    John Green
    “I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #6
    William Ernest Henley
    “It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.”
    William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

  • #7
    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

  • #8
    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

  • #9
    Jennifer Egan
    “I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
    Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

  • #10
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #11
    Cesare Pavese
    “Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
    Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

  • #12
    Tennessee Williams
    “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
    Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

  • #13
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

  • #15
    Napoleon Hill
    “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
    Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

  • #16
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    Philip K. Dick, VALIS

  • #17
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

  • #19
    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

  • #20
    Charles M. Schulz
    “What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #21
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #22
    “Love is a rebellious bird,
    that nobody can tame,
    and you call him quite in vain,
    if it suits him not to come.”
    Ludovic Halévy

  • #23
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #24
    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    Edward Albee

  • #25
    George Plimpton
    “I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
    George Plimpton

  • #26
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #27
    Francesco Petrarca
    “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
    Francesco Petrarca

  • #28
    Dorothy Allison
    “Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
    Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

  • #29
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    Katharine Hepburn

  • #30
    Amy  Chua
    “As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”
    Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother



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