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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #2
    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

  • #3
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #6
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
    Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #12
    Shel Silverstein
    “i made myself a snowball
    As perfect as can be.
    I thought I'd keep it as a pet,
    And let it sleep with me.
    I made it some pajamas
    And a pillow for it's head.
    Then last night it ran away,
    But first - It wet the bed.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #13
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “Home is the nicest word there is.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    tags: home

  • #14
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Dear me, how I love a library.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #15
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #16
    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

  • #17
    Elizabeth Berg
    “You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.”
    Elizabeth Berg

  • #18
    Elizabeth Berg
    “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
    Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending

  • #19
    Elizabeth Berg
    “There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
    Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

  • #20
    Mitch Albom
    “Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #23
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
    Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
    Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #28
    Dodie Smith
    “How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.”
    Jane Austen

  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway



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