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  • #1
    Trent Dalton
    “No weights of gold to measure
    Only scales of truth and lies
    For we are living treasure
    Under all our shimmering skies”
    Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

  • #2
    Trent Dalton
    “Do your time before it does you.”
    Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

  • #3
    Nick Hornby
    “The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
    Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

  • #4
    Nick Hornby
    “I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
    Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

  • #5
    Carrie Brownstein
    “I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring.”
    Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

  • #6
    Nick Hornby
    “Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.”
    Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

  • #7
    “Elevate yourself through the power of your mind, and not degrade yourself, for the mind can be the friend and also the enemy of the self.”
    The Bhagavad Gita

  • #8
    Brian Tracy
    “Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.”
    Brian Tracy, Brian Tracy's Book of Motivational Quotes To Live By

  • #9
    “Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”
    Tamanend

  • #10
    Terence McKenna
    “The only spirit that ever gave me a name was St. Tammany whom reassured me of my future success early on and kept saying the name Matthew Edward Hall whom i predict will be a prophet or future savior of some sort. I've confirmed St. Tammany to be Tamanend, the only Native American Saint.”
    Terence McKenna

  • #11
    R.F. Kuang
    “Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
    R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #13
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “But loving somebody isn’t perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch. That’s why it’s a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #14
    Susanna Clarke
    “May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.”
    Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

  • #15
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “Life is free, food grows on trees.”
    Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

  • #16
    Laini Taylor
    “It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #17
    R.F. Kuang
    “The problem is that we're always living like we're lost.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #18
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #19
    “The same people that outlawed the practice of Native American Medicine (without a colonizer centric degree), outlawed the traditional practice of healing those that are hurt/ill without expecting anything in return. Free healthcare. The basis of community.”
    San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

  • #20
    Yanina K.
    “You will shout my name loudly and bedependent on my caresses.”
    Yanina K., Seduction by Death: Seduction Series

  • #21
    Yanina K.
    “Two imperfect people met each other... They fell in love... And they became ideal for each other...”
    Yanina K., Seduction by Death: Seduction Series

  • #22
    Yanina K.
    “She was already mine. Her fragile, tender body was already in the mouth of a terrible monster, I just had to grit my teeth for the blood to start flowing.”
    Yanina K., Seduction by Death: Seduction Series



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