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  • #1
    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #2
    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    Temple Grandin

  • #3
    James Hilton
    “People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
    James Hilton, Lost Horizon

  • #4
    Monica Ali
    “The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
    Monica Ali, Brick Lane

  • #5
    Emily Brontë
    “Terror made me cruel . . .”
    Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

  • #6
    Sigmund Freud
    “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #7
    James  Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    James Jones, From Here to Eternity

  • #8
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #9
    Helen Hooven Santmyer
    “In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”
    Helen Hooven Santmyer

  • #10
    Edmund Spenser
    “For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
    Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #12
    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

  • #13
    Stuart Wilde
    “Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.”
    Stuart Wilde, Life Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle

  • #14
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    “On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
    Penelope Fitzgerald

  • #15
    “For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.”
    Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

  • #16
    Eva Ibbotson
    “It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
    Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

  • #17
    Thornton Wilder
    “Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
    Thornton Wilder, Our Town

  • #18
    Derek Walcott
    “Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
    Derek Walcott

  • #19
    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    Philip José Farmer

  • #20
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman

  • #21
    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
    why.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #23
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    Alice Walker

  • #24
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    LeVar Burton

  • #25
    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

  • #26
    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #27
    N. Scott Momaday
    “A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
    N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

  • #28
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #29
    “You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
    Ira Glass

  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea



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