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George Carlin
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
George Carlin
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Hanya Yanagihara
“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Richelle Mead
“You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.”
Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
Seán O'Casey
“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
Sean O'Casey
Seamus Heaney
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
Stephenie Meyer
“I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Alan             Moore
“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
Taylor Swift
“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
Steven Spielberg
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Virginia Woolf
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Frost
“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost
Charlotte Brontë
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë
“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
J.K. Rowling
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Albert Camus
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
Markus Zusak
“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Lemony Snicket
“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
Alan Alda
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
Alan Alda
Colleen Hoover
“I got schooled this year
by
a
boy
.

A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with.
And he taught me the most important thing of all...

To put the emphasis
On life .”
Colleen Hoover, Slammed
Caroline Gordon
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
Caroline Gordon
Jack London
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London
Anaïs Nin
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
Anais Nin
Jennifer Niven
“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Melissa Marr
“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
Rachel Carson
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
Rachel Carson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
V.E. Schwab
“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue