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  • #1
    Ayn Rand
    “The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #2
    Ayn Rand
    “You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #3
    Pat Conroy
    “My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #4
    Margaret Mitchell
    “I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #5
    Margaret Mitchell
    “My dear, I don't give a damn.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #6
    Pat Conroy
    “Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
    Pat Conroy, Beach Music

  • #7
    Pat Conroy
    “Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”
    Pat Conroy

  • #8
    Pat Conroy
    “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
    Pat Conroy

  • #9
    Pat Conroy
    “I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”
    Pat Conroy, Beach Music

  • #10
    Pat Conroy
    “A story untold could be the one that kills you.”
    Pat Conroy

  • #11
    Pat Conroy
    “I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”
    Pat Conroy, The Great Santini

  • #12
    Pat Conroy
    “Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”
    Pat Conroy, Beach Music

  • #13
    Pat Conroy
    “I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”
    Pat Conroy, Beach Music

  • #14
    Pat Conroy
    “Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”
    Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

  • #15
    Pat Conroy
    “Man wonders but God decides
    When to kill the Prince of Tides.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #16
    Pat Conroy
    “The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #17
    Pat Conroy
    “What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts”
    Pat Conroy, South of Broad
    tags: story

  • #18
    Pat Conroy
    “There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #19
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #20
    Alice Hoffman
    “There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #21
    Alice Hoffman
    “Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #22
    Alice Hoffman
    “My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #23
    Alice Hoffman
    “Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.”
    Alice Hoffman, Incantation

  • #24
    Alice Hoffman
    “You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. ”
    Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

  • #25
    Alice Hoffman
    “When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”
    Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth

  • #26
    Alice Hoffman
    “Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”
    Alice Hoffman, Local Girls
    tags: luck

  • #27
    Alice Hoffman
    “Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #28
    Elizabeth Kostova
    “It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
    Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

  • #29
    Elizabeth Kostova
    “As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”
    Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

  • #30
    Elizabeth Kostova
    “And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?”
    Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves
    tags: books



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