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“Oh, Lucia the captain said softly, you are so little and so lovely. how I would have liked to have taken you to Norway and shown you the fiords in the midnight sun, and to China- what you've missed, Lucia, by being born too late to travel the Seven Seas with me! And what I've missed, too.”
― R.A. Dick, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
― Primo Levi, The Periodic Table

“More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

“Whose house is this? Whose night keeps out the light In here? Say, who owns this house? It’s not mine. I dreamed another, sweeter, brighter With a view of lakes crossed in painted boats; Of fields wide as arms open for me. This house is strange. Its shadows lie. Say, tell me, why does its lock fit my key?”
― Toni Morrison, Home

“Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I know the sort,' said Mr. Hawley, 'some emissary. He'll begin with flourish about the Rights of Man and end with murdering a wench.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”
― Willam Shakesphere, Macbeth

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make sense any more.”
― Coleman Barks

“You don't fall into reacting to reaction, because then you lose perspective and you lose judgement - The Big Picture.”
― John Hume

“You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“...Ben, but Teresa too, must be feeling oppressed by the rich clever world where people could leap off into air under umbrellas and feel safe, because their lives had always been safe.”
― Doris Lessing, Ben, In the World

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

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

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

“I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
― Helen Thomas

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.”
― Åsne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul

“Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped.”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

“And for a reason he still did not understand, he began to cry. Love plain, simple, and so fast it shattered him.”
― Toni Morrison, Home

“Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake—otherwise it just walks on in your door.”
― Toni Morrison, Home

“What's done cannot be undone.”
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride