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“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.”
― Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I never change, except in my affections.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

“It all depends on what sum is sufficient to break a man. A question of relativity, is it not so?”
― Anonymous

“Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.”
― Anonymous

“All love serenades must come to an end.”
― Anonymous

“I’d say where thinking ends, stupidity begins.”
― Anonymous

“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?”
― Anonymous

“Excesivii sunt ceilalţi, hiperintelectualli, nervoşii care poartă bătălii acasă mutând solniţa şi scobitorile pe masă ca să înţeleagă cum ar fi procedat ei dacă erau von Rundstedt sau generalul Patton.”
― Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu

“„Învingătorul trebuie să fie generos”. Ei bine, eu nu pot fi. Sunt sigură că cei care au născocit aforismul ăsta, nu avuseseră de luptat împotriva crucilor încârligate.”
― Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu, Al cincilea as

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“It is odd, when you think about it, that we accuse racists of “discrimination.” This is the very thing of which they are by definition incapable: They think all members of certain groups are the same.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I love you present tense.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Silence can mock.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“All I can do in one session is to be real, to leap into the patient’s life, to offer observations in the hope that he’ll be able to open doors and explore some new parts of himself in his ongoing therapy.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

“Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible. We walk around happily with these invisible veils hanging down over our faces. The world is kind of blurry, and we like it that way. But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there's a wind blowing it from our faces. And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love. But mostly we are happy not to. Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

“I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me