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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    Seneca

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #5
    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #6
    Leslye Walton
    “I found it ironic that I should be blessed with wings and yet feel so constrained, so trapped. It was because of my condition, I believe, that I noticed life's ironies a bit more often than the average person. I collected them: how love arrived when you least expected it, how someone who said he didn't want to hurt you eventually would.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

  • #7
    Leslye Walton
    “Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

  • #8
    Leslye Walton
    “Love makes us such fools.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
    tags: love

  • #9
    Leslye Walton
    “He smiled then, bringing back that twinge in her stomach, something that she only later recognized as the pangs of desire.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

  • #10
    Leslye Walton
    “Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

  • #11
    Anne Frank
    “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Isabel Allende
    “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #15
    Jasmine Warga
    “Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
    Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

  • #16
    Stephanie Perkins
    “When it's right, it's simple.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

  • #17
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    Daniel Pennac

  • #18
    Tom Hiddleston
    “Loki'd!”
    Tom Hiddleston

  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #21
    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

  • #22
    Colleen Hoover
    “It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love”
    Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

  • #23
    Colleen Hoover
    “Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren't even worth it. Without the beautiful, you'll never risk feeling the ugly. So you give it all up. You give it all up. You never want love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again.”
    Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

  • #24
    Colleen Hoover
    “I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.”
    Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

  • #25
    Colleen Hoover
    “That’s how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He’s nowhere, then suddenly he’s everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.”
    Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

  • #26
    Colleen Hoover
    “What rules?”

    “Well, for one, I’m not allowed to break your heart,” he says. “Second, I’m also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I’m not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.”
    Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

  • #27
    Colleen Hoover
    “But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.”
    Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

  • #28
    Colleen Hoover
    “Hearts get infiltrated.
    Promises get broken.
    Rules get shattered.
    Love gets ugly.”
    Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows



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