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  • #1
    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

  • #2
    D.H. Lawrence
    “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
    D.H. Lawrence

  • #3
    Margaret Landon
    “She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
    Margaret Landon

  • #4
    Michael Ondaatje
    “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
    Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

  • #5
    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
    Sherwood Anderson

  • #6
    William H. Armstrong
    “One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
    William H. Armstrong

  • #7
    Anne Bradstreet
    “Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
    Anne Bradstreet

  • #8
    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    Anna Deavere Smith

  • #9
    Jude Deveraux
    “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
    Jude Deveraux

  • #10
    Fannie Flagg
    “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #11
    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    Eugene Field

  • #12
    W.H. Auden
    “We must love one another or die”
    W.H. Auden

  • #13
    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    Janet Frame

  • #14
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
    Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

  • #15
    Will Shortz
    “As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
    Will Shortz

  • #16
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #17
    Ogden Nash
    “Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
    And that's what parents were created for.”
    Ogden Nash

  • #18
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    Confucius

  • #19
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #20
    Caroline Gordon
    “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
    Caroline Gordon

  • #21
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #22
    Paul Simon
    “It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
    Paul Simon

  • #23
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #24
    Kathleen Winsor
    “Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
    Kathleen Winsor

  • #25
    Tracy Chevalier
    “I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
    Tracy Chevalier

  • #26
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #27
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #28
    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

  • #29
    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    Zadie Smith

  • #30
    “To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
    Geoffrey Wolff



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