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  • #1
    Stephenie Meyer
    “You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating.”
    Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #3
    Henning Mankell
    “It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky
    like that, I wish I could write music”
    Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

  • #4
    Sergei Lukyanenko
    “The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.”
    Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

  • #5
    Kirsten Hubbard
    “I used to wonder what it would look like if all my footsteps were painted red: all the steps I'd ever taken in all the places I'd ever been.”
    Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

  • #6
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #7
    Jarod Kintz
    “I am the sunrise of sunsets, and I make love like noon at midnight.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

  • #8
    “Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.”
    Joseph R. Cooke

  • #9
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #10
    Carrie Ryan
    “I want to sleep, I want dreams to pull me from this world and make me forget. To stop the memories from swirling around me. To put an end to this ache that consumes me.”
    Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth

  • #11
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #12
    Carol Ann Duffy
    “She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.”
    Carol Ann Duffy, Another Night Before Christmas

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    Lemony Snicket
    “The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

  • #15
    Lois Lowry
    “Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #16
    “If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.”
    Stephen Clarke, A Year in the Merde

  • #17
    L.M. Montgomery
    “A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.”
    L.M. Montgomery (Author)

  • #18
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #19
    Jasinda Wilder
    “The stars froze in the sky, and the moon went dark, and all the world stopped and stared, awed at the sheer, breathtaking passion blazing between us.”
    Jasinda Wilder, Big Girls Do It Better

  • #20
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #21
    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #22
    Mandy Hale
    “Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.”
    Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Like This

    If anyone asks you
    how the perfect satisfaction
    of all our sexual wanting
    will look, lift your face
    and say,

    Like this.

    When someone mentions the gracefulness
    of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
    and dance and say,

    Like this.

    If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is,
    or what "God’s fragrance" means,
    lean your head toward him or her.
    Keep your face there close.

    Like this.

    When someone quotes the old poetic image
    about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
    slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
    of your robe.

    Like this.

    If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
    don’t try to explain the miracle.
    Kiss me on the lips.

    Like this. Like this.

    When someone asks what it means
    to "die for love," point
    here.
    If someone asks how tall I am, frown
    and measure with your fingers the space
    between the creases on your forehead.

    This tall.

    The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
    When someone doesn’t believe that,
    walk back into my house.

    Like this.

    When lovers moan,
    they’re telling our story.

    Like this.

    I am a sky where spirits live.
    Stare into this deepening blue,
    while the breeze says a secret.

    Like this.

    When someone asks what there is to do,
    light the candle in his hand.

    Like this.

    How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?
    Huuuuu.

    How did Jacob’s sight return?
    Huuuu.

    A little wind cleans the eyes.

    Like this.
    When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
    he’ll put just his head around the edge
    of the door to surprise us

    Like this.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: love

  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #25
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #26
    Emily Dickinson
    “Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #27
    Tahir Shah
    “The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.”
    Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

  • #28
    Jim Morrison
    “Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night? ”
    Jim Morrison

  • #29
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I hate you."
    I love you."
    You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."
    I'm trying not to be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #30
    Vera Nazarian
    “Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.”
    Vera Nazarian, Salt of the Air



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