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#1

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

#2

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

6209 likes

#3

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

tags: life, prime-numbers

1530 likes

#4

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

1639 likes

#5

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: folly, preference, wisdom

1634 likes

#6

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

tags: fire, love, lust, matches

2035 likes

#7

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

2800 likes

#8

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

2820 likes

#9

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

tags: love, worthiness

1370 likes

#10

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

1284 likes

#11

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2424 likes

#12

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3485 likes

#13

“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”
― Lily Tuck

1019 likes

#14

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

2324 likes

#15

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

1734 likes

#16

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4787 likes

#17

“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

681 likes

#18

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1959 likes

#19

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

tags: life

1662 likes

#20

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

1885 likes

#21

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

2726 likes

#22

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

1084 likes

#23

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

1956 likes

#24

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

1814 likes

#25

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

3332 likes

#26

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

3858 likes

#27

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1356 likes

#28

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural

2071 likes

#29

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

2836 likes

#30

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

1166 likes

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