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  • #1
    Anthony Doerr
    “Doesn't look like much, does he?" murmurs Frederick. "Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire."

    The wagtail hops from twig to twig. Werner rubs his aching eyes. It's just a bird.

    "Ten thousand years ago," whispers Frederick, "they came through here in the millions. When this place was a garden, one endless garden from end to end.”
    Anthony Doerr

  • #2
    Anthony Doerr
    “But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #3
    Anthony Doerr
    “There is pride, too, though—pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. The drain moans; the cluttered house crowds in close.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #4
    Anthony Doerr
    “Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #5
    Sophie Kinsella
    “The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”
    Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

  • #6
    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

  • #7
    Charlaine Harris
    “By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.
    I am sorry that the maenad picked on you."
    I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation.
    Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me."
    That's more like it.”
    Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas

  • #8
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.”
    Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #11
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #12
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #13
    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"

    I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.

    "Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #14
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #15
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #16
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #17
    Diana Gabaldon
    “The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #18
    Diana Gabaldon
    “It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

  • #19
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away. He shook his head, still gazing up the hill, a faraway look in his eyes.
    I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay.' He pulled his eyes away from the cottage and smiled briefly at me.
    Hardest thing I ever did, Sassenach.”
    Diana Gabaldon

  • #20
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #21
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #22
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #23
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #24
    Anne Lamott
    “Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #25
    E.E. Cummings
    “love is thicker than forget
    more thinner than recall
    more seldom than a wave is wet
    more frequent than to fail

    it is most mad and moonly
    and less it shall unbe
    than all the sea which only
    is deeper than the sea

    love is less always than to win
    less never than alive
    less bigger than the least begin
    less littler than forgive

    it is most sane and sunly
    and more it cannot die
    than all the sky which only
    is higher than the sky”
    E. E. Cummings
    tags: love

  • #26
    William Carlos Williams
    This is Just to Say

    I have eaten
    the plums
    that were in
    the icebox

    and which
    you were probably
    saving
    for breakfast

    Forgive me
    they were delicious
    so sweet
    and so cold”
    William Carlos Williams

  • #27
    Bree Despain
    “We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because
    they need it--because we need it. I'm sure you felt much better after forgiving your son.”
    Bree Despain

  • #28
    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #29
    Elie Wiesel
    “I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #30
    Elie Wiesel
    “He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night



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