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  • #1
    Sappho
    “There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.”
    Sappho

  • #2
    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.”
    Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

  • #3
    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
    Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

  • #4
    Bret Easton Ellis
    “The things I could do to you with a coat hanger.”
    Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

  • #5
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Do not fall in love with people like me
    we will take you to
    museums and parks
    and monuments
    and kiss you in every beautiful
    place so that you can
    never go back to them
    without tasting us
    like blood in your mouth.”
    Caitlyn Siehl

  • #6
    Dan Wells
    “I've been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,' I said. 'Do you know what that means?'
    'It means you're a freak,' he said.
    'It means that you're about as important to me as a cardboard box,' I said. 'You're just a thing - a piece of garbage that no one's thrown away yet. Is that what you want me to say?'
    'Shut up,' said Rob. He was still acting tough, but I could see his bluster was starting to fail. He didn't know what to say.
    'The thing about boxes,' I said, 'is that you can open them up. Even though they're completely boring on the outside, there might be something interesting inside. So while you're saying all of these stupid, boring things I'm imagining what it would be like to cut you open and see what you've got in there.”
    Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer

  • #7
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #8
    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

  • #9
    Plutarch
    “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
    Plutarch

  • #10
    Cornelia Funke
    “Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #11
    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    Laurence J. Peter

  • #12
    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    Plato

  • #13
    James Baldwin
    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
    James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

  • #14
    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

  • #15
    Tiffany Madison
    “The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.”
    Tiffany Madison, Black and White

  • #16
    Epictetus
    “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
    Epictetus

  • #17
    Anastasia Bitkova
    “The hardest battles are the ones that are happening inside us. Especially when we don't know which side we are on.”
    Anastasia Bitkova



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