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  • #1
    Patricia Lockwood
    “How do god fit him ass in them jeans when he is, in fact, Everywhere”
    Patricia Lockwood

  • #2
    Michael Chabon
    “They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other”
    Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  • #3
    Virginia Woolf
    “Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #4
    Robin Hobb
    “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
    Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

  • #5
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #7
    Felicia Day
    “Knowing yourself is life's eternal homework”
    Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

  • #8
    Felicia Day
    “We have to dig and experiment and figure out who the hell we are from birth to death, which is super inconvenient, right?”
    Felicia Day , You're Never Weird on the Internet

  • #9
    Felicia Day
    “When we graduate from childhood into adulthood, we're thrown into this confusing, Cthulhu-like miasma of life, filled with social and career problems, all with branching choices and no correct answers.”
    Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

  • #10
    Michael Chabon
    “In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.”
    Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  • #11
    Michael Chabon
    “One of the fundamental axioms of masculine self-regard is that the tools and appurtenances of a man's life must be containable within the pockets of his jacket and pants. Wallet, keys, gum, show or ball game tickets, Kleenex, condoms, cell phone, maybe a lighter and a pack of cigarettes: Just cram it all in there, motherfucker.”
    Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs

  • #12
    Michael Chabon
    “This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,”
    Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #14
    Margaret Drabble
    “Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
    Margaret Drabble

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #16
    Edith Sitwell
    “I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #17
    Robin Hobb
    “Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”
    Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

  • #18
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Red Country

  • #19
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

  • #20
    Stephen Fry
    “An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #21
    Stephen Fry
    “The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #22
    Patricia Lockwood
    “Sometimes I have thought I was lonely and it turned out I was in reality wanting a snack, just like sometimes I have thought I was mad and it turned out I was actually wearing too many sweaters.”
    Patricia Lockwood

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger

  • #25
    N.K. Jemisin
    “Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #27
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
    Stephen King , The Dark Tower

  • #29
    Michael Chabon
    “It was, in part, a longing – common enough among the inventors of heroes – to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved”
    Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.”
    Stephen King, It



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