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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #2
    Marissa Meyer
    “But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.”
    Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #6
    Ashley Poston
    “I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
    Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

  • #6
    Ashley Poston
    “You only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.”
    Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #9
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #10
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #11
    Rachel Gillig
    “Be wary. Be clever. Be good.”
    Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

  • #12
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • #13
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Men often described the girl as having hair the color of wheat. Others called it the color of caramel, or occasionally the color of honey. The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women’s features. There was a hunger to such men that was best avoided.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • #14
    Stephen Fry
    “Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”
    Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

  • #15
    Stephen Fry
    “Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it.”
    Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “Your hair is winter fire,
    January embers.
    My heart burns there, too.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #17
    Mae West
    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
    Mae West

  • #18
    Roald Dahl
    “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #19
    T. Kingfisher
    “She made dramatic plans in the darkness and discarded them in daylight.”
    T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

  • #20
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It’s a common mistake to assume that someone is weak because they are accommodating. If you think this, you might be the type who has no idea how much effort—how much strength—it takes to put up with your nonsense.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
    C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

  • #22
    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

  • #23
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “Your hair is winter fire
    January embers
    My heart burns there, too.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #25
    June Hur
    “If by any chance we do not meet again in this lifetime, then I will find you in the next—or as many lifetimes as it takes to see you again.”
    June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves

  • #26
    Michael Crichton
    “Life will find a way.”
    Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Rachel Gillig
    “You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”
    Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

  • #29
    M.L. Wang
    “It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”
    M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

  • #30
    George Orwell
    “There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm



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