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#1

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love

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#2

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

2566 likes

#3

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

1298 likes

#4

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: love

5297 likes

#5

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul

1414 likes

#6

“It is good people who make good places.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming

1732 likes

#7

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

tags: memories

1498 likes

#8

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

3018 likes

#9

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!”
― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

tags: australia, australian, poetry

973 likes

#10

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

1380 likes

#11

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

1491 likes

#12

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

1954 likes

#13

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

2208 likes

#14

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6532 likes

#15

“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
― Katherine Mansfield

tags: eyes, happiness, happy-people, holding-hands, love, short-story, smiling

970 likes

#16

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13159 likes

#17

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9725 likes

#18

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

tags: humor

5068 likes

#19

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: funny

6421 likes

#20

“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: bad, courage, good, lemony-snicket, series-of-unforunate-events

2290 likes

#21

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

758 likes

#22

“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
― Sheila Hancock

1136 likes

#23

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

2178 likes

#24

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: forgiveness, hiding-place

2042 likes

#25

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

5877 likes

#26

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

tags: healing, poetry

1638 likes

#27

“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
― Christopher Marlowe

380 likes

#28

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

1046 likes

#29

“It came from the woods. Most strange things do.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

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#30

“But the worst kind of monster was the burrowing kind. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from the inside out.”
― Emily Carroll

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