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“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
― Tuli Kupferberg

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy