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  • #1
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #2
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #4
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #5
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #6
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #7
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #8
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #11
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #12
    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #14
    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #15
    Haruki Murakami
    “What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #16
    Colleen Hoover
    “No one is likable from the inside out.”
    Colleen Hoover, Verity

  • #17
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “That's what you do when you want something. You don't look for reasons why it won't work. You look for reasons why it will.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

  • #18
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

  • #19
    L.M. Montgomery
    “And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #20
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #21
    L.M. Montgomery
    “The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

  • #22
    Alice Oseman
    “I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
    Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

  • #23
    Alice Oseman
    “But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
    Alice Oseman, Solitaire

  • #24
    Jodi Picoult
    “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #25
    Jodi Picoult
    “A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”
    Jodi Picoult

  • #26
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    “I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
    “I know,” she says.
    “Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
    Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

  • #27
    Deborah Moggach
    “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you”
    Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
    Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

  • #30
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
    Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life



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