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  • #1
    T.S. Eliot
    “And I will show you something different from either
    Your shadow at morning striding behind you
    Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
    I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

  • #2
    Charles de Lint
    “Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
    Charles de Lint, Moonheart

  • #3
    John Green
    “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #4
    W.B. Yeats
    “A mermaid found a swimming lad,
    Picked him up for her own,
    Pressed her body to his body,
    Laughed; and plunging down
    Forgot in cruel happiness
    That even lovers drown.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #5
    Shel Silverstein
    “True story
    This morning I jumped on my horse
    And went for a ride,
    And some wild outlaws chased me
    And shot me in the side.
    So I crawled into a wildcats cave
    To find a place to hide
    But some pirates found me sleeping there
    And soon they had me tied
    To a pole and built a fire
    Under me---I almost cried
    Till a mermaid came and cut me loose
    And begged to be my bride
    So I said id come back Wednesday
    But I must admit I lied.
    Then I ran into a jungle swamp
    But I forgot my guide
    And I stepped into some quicksand
    And no matter how hard I tried
    I couldn’t get out, until I met
    A watersnake named Clyde
    Who pulled me to some cannibals
    Who planned to have me fried
    But an eagle came and swooped me up
    And through the air we flied
    But he dropped me in a boiling lake
    A thousand miles wide
    And you’ll never guess what I did then---
    I DIED”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #6
    Frank Wedekind
    “The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.”
    Frank Wedekind, Spring's Awakening

  • #7
    Frank Wedekind
    “I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.”
    Frank Wedekind, Spring's Awakening

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    T.S. Eliot
    “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

    I do not think that they will sing to me.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd

  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”
    Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

  • #14
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #15
    P.D. James
    “Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.”
    P.D. James, The Lighthouse

  • #16
    Ally Carter
    “But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.”
    Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

  • #17
    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #18
    Joseph Conrad
    “Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”
    Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories

  • #19
    Emilie Autumn
    “Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
    Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
    What then was music created for?
    Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
    I think I know.”
    Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

  • #20
    Emilie Autumn
    “You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
    Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls



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