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#1

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

12395 likes

#2

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve

2034 likes

#3

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: language, new-year, voice, words

4193 likes

#4

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

1380 likes

#5

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

4329 likes

#6

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

3182 likes

#7

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

2323 likes

#8

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

2855 likes

#9

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

4133 likes

#10

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

2095 likes

#11

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6899 likes

#12

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: courage, reputation

2553 likes

#13

“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

1124 likes

#14

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

21636 likes

#15

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

3118 likes

#16

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

tags: self-sacrifice

1963 likes

#17

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

8103 likes

#18

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

6868 likes

#19

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

tags: athe-plague-of-dives

2639 likes

#20

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

4445 likes

#21

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

tags: faith, inspirational

1331 likes

#22

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

1745 likes

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