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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
― Jonathan Harker's Journal, Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I knew him the least well, understood him scarcely at all, felt uneasy in his presence, and yet perhaps in a strange way loved him more deeply than any.”
― Susan Hill, The Woman in Black

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“احفظ قولَ الحكيمِ الذي قالَ: لتكن غايتك فيما بينك وبين عدوك العدل، وفيما بينك وبين صديقك الرضاء.
وذلك أن العدو خصم تصرعه بالحجةِ وتغلبه بالحكامِ، وأن الصديق ليس بينك وبينه قاضٍ، فإنما حكمه رضاه”
― عبد الله بن المقفع, الأدب الصغير والأدب الكبير

“My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don’t care that they are naked.
There is something burning in there.”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase