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  • #1
    Akwaeke Emezi
    “The first madness was that we were born, that they stuffed a god into a bag of skin.”
    Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

  • #2
    Elif Shafak
    “Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”
    Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #3
    Agustina Bazterrica
    “Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.”
    Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

  • #4
    Agustina Bazterrica
    “which god should she pray to if her god lets things like this happen.”
    Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

  • #5
    Agustina Bazterrica
    “There is something about her he'd like to break”
    Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

  • #6
    Julia Armfield
    “I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
    Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

  • #7
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

    "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

    "To establish ties?"

    "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #8
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #9
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #10
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #11
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

    Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

    It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

    Yes, that is so," said the fox.

    But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

    Yes, that is so," said the fox.

    Then it has done you no good at all!"

    It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #12
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #13
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #14
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But if you tame me, then we
    shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I
    shall be unique in all the world.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #15
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #16
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #17
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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  • #19
    Virgil
    Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #20
    Virgil
    “The descent into Hell is easy”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #21
    Virgil
    “Let me rage before I die.”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #22
    J. Kenji López-Alt
    “And if you don't cook, what's the point of living, really?”
    J. Kenji López-Alt, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

  • #23
    J. Kenji López-Alt
    “There are no shortcuts. There are no hacks. There is just hard work and life experience and two different kinds of omelets, neither one of which is better than the other, just as long as they’re well made.”
    J. Kenji López-Alt, The Best American Food Writing 2020

  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #25
    Paulo Coelho
    “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #26
    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #27
    Kait Rokowski
    “Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was always just red.”
    Kait Rokowski

  • #28
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #29
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #30
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein



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