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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.”
― george knightley, Emma

“She was stronger alone…”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."

-Edward Ferrars”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“كلما زادت معرفتي بالعالم , كلما تيقنت بأني لن أجد رجلاً أحبُّه بحق!”
― جين أوستن, Sense and Sensibility

“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
― Boris Pasternak

“To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“He would take a cactus home if Jane recommended it as toilet paper. Soon”
― Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books

“I will get up. I will get dressed. I will find the love of my life. Right after I finish this chapter.”
― Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books

“Nothing sexier than a man who knows his books.”
― Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books

“I'm impressed with her fine taste in books.”
― Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books

“There are few things more calming than a quiet room full of books.”
― Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books

“A single man of good intelligence must be in want of a library card.”
― Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books

“The fragrance of rain mixes with the smell of old books. It is heavenly—that combination of threat and safety.”
― Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.”
― Trudy Wallis, Longbourn Library: A Novel of Pride, Prejudice, and Books

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

“A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist’s office says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?”

The moth says “What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man? I go to work for Gregory Illinivich, and all day long I work. Honestly doc, I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I don’t even know if Gregory Illinivich knows. He only knows that he has power over me, and that seems to bring him happiness. But I don’t know, I wake up in a malaise, and I walk here and there… at night I…I sometimes wake up and I turn to some old lady in my bed that’s on my arm. A lady that I once loved, doc. I don’t know where to turn to. My youngest, Alexendria, she fell in the…in the cold of last year. The cold took her down, as it did many of us. And my other boy, and this is the hardest pill to swallow, doc. My other boy, Gregarro Ivinalititavitch… I no longer love him. As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes, all I see is the same cowardice that I… that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror. If only I wasn’t such a coward, then perhaps…perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all…Doc, sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I’m a moth, just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me. I’m not feeling good. And so the doctor says, “Moth, man, you’re troubled. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come here?”

And the moth says, “‘Cause the light was on.”
― Norm Macdonald

“Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story