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  • #1
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #2
    Erik Larson
    “I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
    Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

  • #3
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #4
    Michael Chabon
    “We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place...”
    Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  • #5
    Michael Chabon
    “Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!”
    Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  • #6
    M.L. Stedman
    “You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”
    M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

  • #7
    Caitlin Moran
    “When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
    Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

  • #8
    “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
    Lady Gaga

  • #9
    Mary Karr
    “For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.”
    Mary Karr, Lit

  • #10
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #11
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #12
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #13
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • #14
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
    Guillaume Apollinaire

  • #15
    Jeremy Aldana
    “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”
    Jeremy Aldana

  • #16
    Gregory David Roberts
    “Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”
    Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

  • #17
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #18
    James Baldwin
    “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
    James A. Baldwin

  • #19
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:
    Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #20
    Helen Keller
    “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
    Helen Keller

  • #21
    Roy T. Bennett
    “You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #22
    “Scars remind us where we've been. They don't have to dictate where we're going”
    David Rossi

  • #23
    Clementine von Radics
    “All this time
    I drank you like the cure when maybe
    you were the poison.”
    Clementine von Radics

  • #24
    Clementine von Radics
    “I will love you when you are a still day.
    I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
    Clementine von Radics

  • #25
    “where you are. is not who you are. – circumstances”
    Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

  • #26
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them...People don't save other people. People save themselves.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

  • #27
    Margaret Atwood
    “I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman



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