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“A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Sunny day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet”
― Joe Raposo

“The future has an ancient heart.”
― Carlo Levi

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Depression starts slow.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

“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

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
― Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka