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  • #1
    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #2
    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #3
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #4
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #5
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #7
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #8
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #11
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #12
    Suzanne Collins
    “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #13
    Richard  Adams
    “Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down
    tags: evil

  • #14
    “The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.”
    James A. Michener, The Drifters

  • #15
    Orson Scott Card
    “This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
    Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

  • #16
    Orson Scott Card
    “Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #17
    Orson Scott Card
    “Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #18
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

  • #19
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
    E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  • #20
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.”
    E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  • #21
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.”
    E.L. Konigsburg, Literature Guide: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  • #22
    William Goldman
    “Love is many things none of them logical.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #23
    Sherman Alexie
    “If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  • #24
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #25
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #26
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #27
    Andy Weir
    “Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
    Andy Weir, The Martian

  • #28
    Jewel
    “Audiences don't care if you sing correctly. They care if they feel something. If they don't, they forget you. Emotional honesty creates loyalty and a lifelong connection above all else.”
    Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

  • #29
    Cheryl Strayed
    “I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it and that it's not crazy to fear you'll never have it again, even though your fears are probably wrong. Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.”
    Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

  • #30
    Neil Gaiman
    “You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #31
    Elena Ferrante
    “Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
    Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend



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