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  • #1
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #3
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”
    Mary Shelley

  • #4
    Andrew Marvell
    “Had we but world enough, and time”
    Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #6
    Corrie ten Boom
    “You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.”
    Corrie Ten Boom

  • #7
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.”
    Dorothy Parker
    tags: love

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
    Jane Austen

  • #13
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”
    Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.”
    Jane Austen, Emma
    tags: love

  • #15
    Orson Scott Card
    “...he would have been lost except he started out lost and when you start out completely lost, it's hard to get loster.”
    Orson Scott Card

  • #16
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #17
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #18
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #19
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #20
    Beth Hoffman
    “Murdering anything is just plain criminal, but a Southerner murdering a magnolia? Well, that's an unforgivable sacrilege against nautre and the South.”
    Beth Hoffman
    tags: humor

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #23
    Beth Hoffman
    “That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.”
    Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;”
    Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
    tags: wisdom

  • #25
    Chaim Potok
    “...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.”
    Chaim Potok

  • #26
    John Keats
    “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
    John Keats, The Complete Poems

  • #27
    Chaim Potok
    “No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.”
    Chaim Potok, The Chosen

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #30
    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.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #31
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring



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