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  • #1
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #2
    Charles Bukowski
    “Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”
    Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

  • #3
    Roland Barthes
    “Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
    Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

  • #4
    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    Keri Hulme, The Bone People

  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #6
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #7
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #8
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

  • #9
    Nicholas Sparks
    “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
    Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

  • #10
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.”
    Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

  • #11
    Toba Beta
    “I love the way you refuse my love.”
    Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

  • #12
    Jodi Picoult
    “Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #13
    Wu Cheng'en
    “Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted"

    - Sylvia Plath's epitaph (from Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West aka. Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley)”
    Wu Cheng'en

  • #14
    Arthur Miller
    “Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
    Arthur Miller, The Crucible

  • #15
    Arthur Miller
    “Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”
    Arthur Miller, The Crucible

  • #16
    Amy Cuddy
    “Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become”
    Amy Cuddy

  • #17
    Amy Cuddy
    “You are not quitting, because I took a gamble on you, and you're staying. You're going to stay, and this is what you're going to do. You are going to fake it. You're going to do every talk that you ever get asked to do. You're just going to do it and do it and do it, even if you're terrified and just paralyzed and having an out-of-body experience, until you have this moment where you say, 'Oh my gosh, I'm doing it. Like, I have become this. I am actually doing this.'"

    (..)Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.”
    Amy Cuddy

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #19
    Markus Zusak
    “When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.'

    Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.

    Yes.

    I like that a lot.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #20
    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    William Faulkner

  • #21
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #22
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #23
    Emily Brontë
    “Terror made me cruel . . .”
    Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

  • #24
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #25
    Jocelyn Soriano
    “To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
    Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

  • #26
    Steve Maraboli
    “I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #27
    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--”
    Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

  • #28
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

  • #29
    Greg Behrendt
    “big plans require big action”
    Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

  • #30
    Julio Cortázar
    “Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
    Julio Cortázar



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