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  • #1
    Kay Ryan
    “The day misspent,
    the love misplaced,
    has inside it
    the seed of redemption.
    Nothing is exempt
    from resurrection.”
    Kay Ryan, Say Uncle

  • #2
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #5
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Vince Flynn
    “It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
    Vince Flynn, Executive Power

  • #8
    Sharon Creech
    “I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
    Sharon Creech

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Groucho Marx
    “From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #11
    John Marrs
    “there was a fine line between being a tourist and being a traveller.”
    John Marrs, Welcome To Wherever You Are

  • #12
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #14
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #17
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #18
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #21
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #22
    Adrienne Rich
    “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #23
    Eleni Kyriacou
    “Those awful dreams in which the person you’re aching to see again is right there, and yet in that very same moment you know they’ve left you forever.”
    Eleni Kyriacou, The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

  • #24
    Shelby Van Pelt
    “sometimes she still feels as if she’s a mistaken jigsaw piece who found her way into the wrong puzzle.”
    Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

  • #25
    Robin Sloan
    “Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.”
    Robin Sloan, Sourdough

  • #26
    Jane Harper
    “Death rarely changes how we feel about someone. Heightens it, more often than not.”
    Jane Harper, The Dry

  • #27
    Lucy Clarke
    “She yearned to press Pause, to freeze this exact point in her life and hold on to it tightly.”
    Lucy Clarke, The Blue

  • #28
    Lucy Clarke
    “She stares beyond the window, thinking about how regrets can burrow under your skin, take root inside you, so that there is no escaping them.”
    Lucy Clarke, The Blue

  • #29
    “Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
    Jamie Anderson

  • #30
    Miranda July
    “Remember the Simone de Beauvoir quote,” she said, “ ‘You can’t have everything you want but you can want everything you want.’ ”
    Miranda July, All Fours



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