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  • #1
    Nora Roberts
    “The wounded recognized the wounded.”
    Nora Roberts, Rising Tides

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #5
    Émile Zola
    “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
    Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #8
    William Goldman
    “Love is many things none of them logical.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #9
    William Goldman
    “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #10
    William Goldman
    “Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where there's life there's hope.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #18
    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #22
    Walter  Scott
    “Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”
    Walter Scott

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice



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