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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience—yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim—except the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead. What is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
― Sarah Kay

“Dont look down on people because they ca nsee the crap stuck up against your nostrils”
― Twinkle Khanna, Mrs Funnybones

“Grief and resilience live together.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

“there is an expanding frontier of ignorance.”
― Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

“D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Some things come with their own punishments.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desparation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“everybody who was ever alive only seen one sun”
― Ocean Vuong

“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“wonder how much the general population of this country knows that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I respect her vanity, because there is so little of it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I can’t answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I’m ready or not, I’m growing up.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect,’ she says. You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you’ve got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“It is a dream residence, but it is nobody’s home.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“Night falls fast. Today is the past.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska