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“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.”
― Lauren Willig, The Masque of the Black Tulip

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”
― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

“To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan?”
― Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“Happy endings are still endings.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“We are so many different people in one lifetime.”
― Deborah Lawrenson, The Lantern

“Anything can happen to change your life at any moment. Live life to the fullest. Do not be a spectator in your life be a player.”
― Julie Campbell

“I have never treasured any woman the way I treasure you now, this moment. You are all I think of, all I want.”
― Carolly Erickson, The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

“Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
― Maurice Sendak

“There must be more to life than having everything!”
― Maurice Sendak, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“And [he] sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him
and it was still hot”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ”
― Maurice Sendak

“Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.”
― Maurice Sendak, Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months

“But the wild things cried, “Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind