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  • #1
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #2
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #3
    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #4
    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  • #5
    Gabrielle Roy
    “The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
    Gabrielle Roy

  • #6
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #7
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “To love and win is the best thing.
    To love and lose, the next best.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #8
    Jayne Anne Phillips
    “If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”
    Jayne Anne Phillips

  • #9
    Amy Vanderbilt
    “I have no use for people who exhibit manners.”
    Amy Vanderbilt

  • #10
    Jean Shepherd
    “The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
    Jean Shepherd

  • #11
    Natalie Babbitt
    “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

  • #12
    Chang-rae Lee
    “For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
    Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

  • #13
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
    Yves Saint Laurent

  • #14
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    James Baldwin

  • #15
    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    Marvin Bell

  • #16
    Colum McCann
    “The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
    Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

  • #17
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #18
    Suzanne Collins
    “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #19
    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    Walter Tevis

  • #20
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #21
    Alex Haley
    “The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
    Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “The breaking of so great a thing should make
    A greater crack: the round world
    Should have shook lions into civil streets,
    And citizens to their dens.”
    William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

  • #23
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Puns are the highest form of literature.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #24
    E. Nesbit
    “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
    E. Nesbit, The Magic World

  • #25
    Georgette Heyer
    “As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
    Georgette Heyer, Venetia

  • #26
    Jacqueline Susann
    “I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
    Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

  • #27
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #28
    Curtis Sittenfeld
    “I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
    Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

  • #29
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

  • #30
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel



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