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  • #1
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #3
    Isaac Marion
    “In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
    Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

  • #4
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #5
    Stephen        King
    “He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”
    Stephen King, The Shining

  • #6
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #7
    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    Will Rogers

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #9
    Gillian Flynn
    “The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #10
    Gillian Flynn
    “It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #11
    Gillian Flynn
    “Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #12
    Gillian Flynn
    “Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #13
    Joe Hill
    “The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
    Joe Hill, Horns

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    Ernest Cline
    “Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”
    Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

  • #16
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #17
    J.D. Salinger
    “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #19
    Stephen        King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #20
    “Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #21
    Richard Matheson
    “How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.”
    Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

  • #22
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #23
    Stephen        King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #24
    Stephen        King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #25
    Stephen        King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #26
    Stephen        King
    “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
    Stephen King

  • #27
    Stephen        King
    “When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
    Stephen King, Joyland
    tags: past

  • #28
    Stephen        King
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    Stephen King

  • #29
    Alice Hoffman
    “My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #30
    Alice Hoffman
    “The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.”
    Alice Hoffman , Practical Magic

  • #31
    Alice Hoffman
    “No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic



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