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  • #1
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #2
    Virgil
    “Fortune sides with him who dares.”
    Virgil

  • #3
    Virgil
    Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #4
    Virgil
    “Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
    Virgil

  • #5
    Virgil
    “Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
    Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”
    Virgil, Eclogues

  • #6
    Virgil
    “If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
    Virgil

  • #7
    Virgil
    “Death twitches my ear;
    'Live,' he says...
    'I'm coming.”
    Virgil

  • #8
    Virgil
    “No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
    Virgil

  • #9
    Virgil
    “The greatest wealth is health”
    Virgil
    tags: life

  • #10
    Virgil
    “They can because they think they can.”
    Virgil

  • #11
    Virgil
    “Let me rage before I die.”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #12
    Virgil
    “Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #13
    Virgil
    “Each of us bears his own Hell.”
    Virgil

  • #14
    Virgil
    “Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ”
    Virgil

  • #15
    Virgil
    “Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #16
    Virgil
    “But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,
    hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
    consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]
    His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--
    no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #17
    Virgil
    “Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #18
    Virgil
    “Time is flying never to return.”
    Virgil

  • #19
    Virgil
    “Optima dies...prima fugit
    (The best days are the first to flee)”
    Virgil

  • #20
    Virgil
    “No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.”
    Virgil

  • #21
    Virgil
    “Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #22
    Virgil
    “A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.”
    Virgil

  • #23
    Virgil
    “Friend, have the courage
    To care little for wealth, and shape yourself,
    You too, to merit godhead.”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #24
    Virgil
    “What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.”
    Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: love

  • #25
    Virgil
    “et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos”
    Vergil, The Aeneid

  • #26
    Virgil
    “What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #27
    Virgil
    “We can't all do everything.”
    Virgil



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