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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

  • #3
    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #4
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #5
    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #8
    Virginia Woolf
    “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #10
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #11
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #12
    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #13
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #14
    Emily Dickinson
    “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “This is my letter to the world
    That never wrote to me”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #16
    Emily Dickinson
    “I'm nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
    They ’d banish us, you know.

    How dreary to be somebody!
    How public, like a frog
    To tell your name the livelong day
    To an admiring bog!”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #17
    Emily Dickinson
    “Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #18
    Emily Dickinson
    “Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #19
    Emily Dickinson
    A Word is Dead

    A word is dead
    When it is said,
    Some say.

    I say it just
    Begins to live
    That day.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #20
    Emily Dickinson
    “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #21
    Emily Dickinson
    “I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #22
    Emily Dickinson
    “The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
    Emily Dickinson
    tags: love

  • #23
    Paul Kalanithi
    “You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #24
    Paul Kalanithi
    “even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #25
    Paul Kalanithi
    “Life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #26
    Paul Kalanithi
    “What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #27
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #28
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #29
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #30
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo



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