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  • #1
    John Updike
    “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
    John Updike

  • #2
    Langston Hughes
    “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #3
    Alice Hoffman
    “Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #4
    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

  • #5
    Bruno Schulz
    “My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
    Bruno Schulz

  • #6
    Ellen Goodman
    “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
    Ellen Goodman

  • #7
    Daniel Clowes
    “He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
    Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

  • #8
    Kingsley Amis
    “If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
    Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

  • #9
    Cynthia Ozick
    “What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #10
    Kathy Acker
    “If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
    Kathy Acker

  • #11
    Stanley Fish
    “The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
    Stanley Fish

  • #12
    Jodi Picoult
    “What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
    Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

  • #13
    Tess Sharpe
    “But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.”
    Tess Sharpe, Far From You

  • #14
    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
    Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

  • #15
    Mary Wortley Montagu
    “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
    Mary Wortley Montagu

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #17
    “There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
    Robert Crais

  • #18
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #19
    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #20
    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #21
    Franz Kafka
    “Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
    franz kafka

  • #22
    Franz Kafka
    “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #23
    Franz Kafka
    “They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong ”
    Franz Kafka

  • #24
    Franz Kafka
    “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
    Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

  • #25
    Franz Kafka
    “May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #26
    Franz Kafka
    “Kill me, or you are a murderer.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #27
    Franz Kafka
    “I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”
    Franz Kafka, The Castle

  • #28
    Franz Kafka
    “We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #29
    Franz Kafka
    “Writing is prayer.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #30
    Franz Kafka
    “August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.”
    Franz Kafka



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