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  • #1
    Kelly Barnhill
    “The only way we challenge poor thinking and bad ideas is through the careful examination of the facts and the publication of data.”
    Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

  • #3
    Jeanette Winterson
    “I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.

    So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.

    It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  • #3
    Jeanette Winterson
    “To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #4
    Staceyann Chin
    “I'm a woman. That means I break hard. And mend like a motherfucker; all sexy and full of heartbreakingly beautiful scars.”
    Staceyann Chin

  • #5
    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

  • #5
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
    The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
    "Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
    "Fuck you," said the raven.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #9
    John Muir
    “The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.”
    John Muir

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?'
    'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”
    Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #13
    Terry Pratchett
    “A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”
    Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

  • #14
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #15
    Joseph Campbell
    “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #16
    Joseph Campbell
    “If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #17
    Joseph Campbell
    “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #18
    Joseph Campbell
    “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #19
    Joseph Campbell
    “Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #20
    Joseph Campbell
    “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #21
    Joseph Campbell
    “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
    Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

  • #22
    Joseph Campbell
    “All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #23
    Joseph Campbell
    “We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #24
    Joseph Campbell
    “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #25
    Joseph Campbell
    “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
    Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

  • #26
    Joseph Campbell
    “We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
    Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #28
    Jeanette Winterson
    “You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

  • #29
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #30
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body



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