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  • #1
    Cecil Baldwin
    “Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you now. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us? We can cope with that. We can do this together. You and I, drowsily, but comfortably.”
    Welcome to Night Vale

  • #2
    Cassandra Clare
    “Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.”
    Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

  • #3
    Rudy Francisco
    “I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #4
    Joseph Fink
    “It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.”
    Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

  • #5
    Suzanne Rivecca
    “The San Francisco therapist kept telling me I shouldn’t be terrified of creative experimentation.
    “I don’t know what’s going to come out of me,” I told her. “It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.”
    “Why?” she said.
    “To make up for it,” I said. “To make up for the fact that it’s me.”
    Suzanne Rivecca

  • #6
    Malorie Blackman
    “She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time. ”
    Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #8
    Beau Taplin
    “Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
    Beau Taplin

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #10
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #11
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

  • #13
    Ralph Ellison
    “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #14
    Malorie Blackman
    “The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.”
    Malorie Blackman, Boys Don't Cry

  • #15
    “If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.”
    Eddie Izzard

  • #16
    “I want to live till I die. No more, no less.”
    Eddie Izzard

  • #17
    Beau Taplin
    “I’m tired of trying to fill up my empty spaces with things I don’t need and people I don’t like.”
    Beau Taplin

  • #18
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #25
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #26
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #27
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #29
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #30
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss



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