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#1

“If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland

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#2

“Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland

63 likes

#3

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

3088 likes

#3

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

1846 likes

#4

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

5433 likes

#5

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26995 likes

#7

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

10474 likes

#8

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing

1267 likes

#9

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

6789 likes

#10

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9941 likes

#11

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

7321 likes

#12

“I choose you over everyone.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

1293 likes

#13

“You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

337 likes

#14

“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

2184 likes

#15

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

tags: fear, friendship, tired, trust

2801 likes

#16

“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: home, lover, person

2942 likes

#17

“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: couples

1211 likes

#18

“I wish for the thing that is best for me.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

1027 likes

#19

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

2836 likes

#20

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5390 likes

#21

“Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

tags: life

358 likes

#22

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

1388 likes

#23

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
― Helen Keller, The Story Of My Life

152 likes

#24

“It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

tags: inspirational

38 likes

#25

“the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

tags: bible, blindness, eternal, sight, temporal

5 likes

#26

“Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

788 likes

#27

“You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

639 likes

#28

“It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

288 likes

#29

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: friends, friendship

4302 likes

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