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  • #1
    “Books were the main reason Rose worked in bookstores, for no matter how chaotic and strange the worlds in them might be, it would always be a finite chaos, one in which you could safely immerse yourself without getting stuck. It was so different from the low-keyed, never-ending, creeping chaos of real life.”
    Anonymous

  • #2
    Elizabeth Wein
    “It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
    Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #4
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #5
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #6
    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

  • #7
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #8
    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #9
    Arundhati Roy
    “If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #10
    Arundhati Roy
    “By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: pg-8

  • #11
    Arundhati Roy
    “Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #12
    Arundhati Roy
    “Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. As though they knew that how far they went would be measured against how far they would be taken.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #13
    Arundhati Roy
    “Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #14
    Arundhati Roy
    “If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. "Does what count?" "The happiness does it count?". She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what counts, counts....."If you eat fish in a dream, does it count?" Does it mean you've eaten fish?”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #15
    Arundhati Roy
    “They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #16
    “Ambition is the bridge between reality and living a dream.”
    Addoo S. Mukhtar

  • #17
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #18
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #19
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #20
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #21
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller

  • #22
    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    Aristotle

  • #23
    Anaïs Nin
    “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #24
    John Steinbeck
    “It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.”
    John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven

  • #25
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #26
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #31
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire



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