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“We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love.”
― Francine Jay, The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life

“Since my house burned down
I now have a better view
of the rising moon”
― Mizuta Masahide

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“You bring joy and pain in equal measure- come aboard if your destination is oblivion. It should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I've seen the world and I'm tired now.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.

And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.”
― Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po

“...the collective madness which is called normality... the madness that masquerades as sanity... For what is the perception of madness, but the perceiver's perception of sanity? What is that perception but what collective society has decreed sanity to be?”
― David Icke

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

“They never let you be famous AND happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We are just the same - I am only a Little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You see, if people knew that dolls could do things, they would make them work. So, perhaps, they have promised each other to keep it a secret.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“What I believe about dolls," she said, "is that they can do things they will not let us know about. Perhaps, really, Emily can read and talk and walk, but she will only do it when people are out of the room. That is her secret. You see, if people knew that dolls could do things, they would make them work. So, perhaps, they have promised each other to keep it a secret. If you stay in the room, Emily will just sit there and stare; but if you go out, she will begin to read, perhaps, or go and look out of the window. Then if she heard either of us coming, she would just run back and jump into her chair and pretend she had been there all the time.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You are wise,” he said.

“If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.”
― A.S. King, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit.
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. The whole secret is in being pliable.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You never answered my question and it was very important.

ARE YOU BALD?”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs