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#1

“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

#2

“Of which those butterflies
Of Earth, who seek the skies,
And so come down again
(Never-contented things!)”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: butterflies, fairyland, magic, poem

6 likes

#3

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45236 likes

#4

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12716 likes

#5

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

tags: activism

8931 likes

#6

“Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: evil, good, good-omens, neil-gaiman, terry-pratchett

188 likes

#7

“I love stories where women save themselves.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: neil-gaiman

43 likes

#8

“Love's job is to make a safe place. Not to deny that the spiny forest exists, but to live hidden inside it, tunneled into the soft undergrasses.”
― Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

8 likes

#9

“What are you doing?" the mother asked.

"I guess I'm throwing roses," the girl said, unable to make sense of herself.”
― Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

tags: uh-huh

4 likes

#10

“You can love as many and as much as you want. I thought I had to save my love up, that I would run out. It turns out it's the exact opposite.”
― Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

4 likes

#11

“Too long in seawater can unmake any loveliness.”
― Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

tags: beauty, oceans

2 likes

#12

“Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: love, relationships

336 likes

#13

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski, charles-bukowski, self-love

714 likes

#14

“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: age, bukowski, lonely

281 likes

#15

“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

1138 likes

#16

“Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

218 likes

#17

“who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski, hope, love-is-a-dog-from-hell, mental-health, poem, the-crunch

10 likes

#18

“Is this a kissing book?”
― William Goldman

tags: princess-bride, storytelling

25 likes

#19

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151403 likes

#20

“You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”
― Fred Rogers

tags: fred-rogers, inspirational, mister-rogers, neighbor, neighborhood, special

31 likes

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