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  • #1
    Julian Barnes
    “This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
    Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

  • #3
    David Levithan
    “You won’t cry, and that makes me want to.”
    David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

  • #4
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
    Francois De La Rochefoucauld

  • #7
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

  • #7
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #9
    Romain Rolland
    “Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
    Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

  • #11
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
    La Rochefoucauld

  • #13
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #16
    Dan    Brown
    “Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?”
    Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

  • #19
    Gayle Forman
    “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay

  • #22
    Shel Silverstein
    “The Little Boy and the Old Man

    Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
    Said the old man, "I do that too."
    The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
    I do that too," laughed the little old man.
    Said the little boy, "I often cry."
    The old man nodded, "So do I."
    But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
    Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
    And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
    I know what you mean," said the little old man.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #24
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #25
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
    Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

  • #26
    Gayle Forman
    “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay

  • #27
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #28
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #29
    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    Gail Carson Levine

  • #30
    R.J. Scott
    “That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.”
    RJ Scott, The Heart of Texas

  • #31
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #32
    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

  • #33
    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    Jane Goodall

  • #34
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

  • #35
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
    François de La Rochefoucauld

  • #36
    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

  • #37
    “I walked a mile with Pleasure;
    She chatted all the way;
    But left me none the wiser
    For all she had to say.

    I walked a mile with Sorrow;
    And ne’er a word said she;
    But, oh! The things I learned from her,
    When Sorrow walked with me.”
    Robert Browning Hamilton

  • #38
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #39
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #40
    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #41
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

  • #42
    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things



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