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“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“Like your zodiac sign?’ Percy asked. ‘I’m a Leo.’
‘No, stupid,’ Leo said. ‘I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire