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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I wish our story could have had another ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Hope is a difficult thing to kill, just a spark of it can start a fire.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
― Mary Oliver

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”
― Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

“The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts and customs had not, which meant the world hadn't actually changed at all.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, 82년생 김지영

“What do you want from us? The dumb girls are too dumb, the smart girls are too smart, and the average girls are too unexceptional?”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“Please, don't be afraid of being happy. Becoming happy isn't the same thing as accepting your current misfortune. It means creating a new happiness out of your current misfortune.”
― Ryukishi07, Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden Witch, Vol. 1 - manga

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Me refiero al amor –susurró en voz baja-. Cuando amas a alguien, sientes algo aquí –añadió, colocando su mano sobre el corazón de Uri-. Tan fuerte que parece que no puedes respirar. Tan intenso que deseas estar siempre con esa persona y no separarte de ella nunca más.”
― Laura Gallego García, Donde los árboles cantan

“-Una parte de tu corazón me pertenece. Y no pienso renunciar a ella”
― Laura Gallego García, La resistencia

“Adoraba sumergirse entre sus páginas amarillentas, aspirar el olor a libro viejo y dejarse llevar por el poder de las palabras. Los libros la transportaban a mundos mágicos, lejanos, infinitos, repletos de aventuras y emociones.”
― Laura Gallego García, Todas las hadas del reino

“Duele que te dejen de lado cuando sufres una tragedia. Duele que resten importancia a algo que ha cambiado tu vida.”
― Laura Gallego García

“-El futuro –afirma con gravedad- es como un río, tan ancho y poderoso que no se puede cambiar ni invertir su curso. Sin embargo, al mismo tiempo está formado por multitud de pequeños afluentes que sí podemos desviar. Puedes cambiar tu futuro, porque muchas de tus acciones solo dependen de ti. Pero no podrás modificar el destino de toda la humanidad. Para eso es necesaria una acción grandiosa… extraordinaria… una acción cuyas consecuencias realmente supongan un giro en la historia del mundo. Esas acciones no están al alcance de cualquiera, y cuando alguien se ve en la coyuntura de decidir si llevar o no a cabo un acto semejante, normalmente no es consciente de ello. Pero en ocasiones… existe la posibilidad de hacer… o no hacer… algo que cambiará el destino del mundo.”
― Laura Gallego García, Dos velas para el diablo

“Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cambio… se viven. ¿Entiendes? Viana asintió, aunque no estaba segura de comprenderlo del todo. —Ahora tú debes decidir —concluyó Oki— si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia.”
― Laura Gallego García, Donde los árboles cantan

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“you tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out i was not made with a lightness on my tongue so i could be easy to swallow i was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you.”
― Rupi Kaur

“for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can't help but
see it everywhere”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like
when i am sad
i don’t cry i pour
when i am happy
i don’t smile i glow
when i am angry
i don’t yell i burn
the good thing about
feeling in extremes
is when i love
i give them wings
but perhaps
that isn't
such a good thing
cause they always
tend to leave and
you should see me
when my heart is broken
i don't grieve
i shatter”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“most importantly love
like it's the only thing you know how
at the end of the day all this
means nothing
this page
where you're sitting
your degree
your job
the money
nothing even matters
except love and human connection
who you loved
and how deeply you loved them
how you touched the people around you
and how much you gave them”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“To know how it ends
And still begin to sing it again
As if it might turn out this time”
― Anaïs Mitchell