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“Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.”
― L.J. Smith, The Initiation / The Captive Part I

“I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
― Rita Rudner

“Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, ....whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or accidental condition of circumstance.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Writings

“The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Don't forget to be your wife's best friend as well as her husband. True friendship in marriage does away with all sorts of trouble.”
― Blanche Ebbutt, Don'ts For Husbands

“Don't always refuse to go shopping with your wife. Of course it's a nuisance, but sometimes she honestly wants your advice, and you ought to be pleased to give it.”
― Blanche Ebbutt, Don'ts For Husbands

“Despair threatened to drag me down, but I fought it back, clinging to a single, flickering thought. Shay loves me. He would risk everything to find his way back to my side and set me free. Because that's what love is, isn't it? It has to be.”
― Andrea Cremer, Nightshade

“So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.”
― Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

“I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all”
― Three Days Grace

“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Inside this pencil
crouch words that have never been written
never been spoken
never been taught

they’re hiding

they’re awake in there
dark in the dark
hearing us
but they won’t come out
not for love not for time not for fire

even when the dark has worn away
they’ll still be there
hiding in the air
multitudes in days to come may walk through them
breathe them
be none the wiser

what script can it be
that they won’t unroll
in what language
would I recognize it
would I be able to follow it
to make out the real names
of everything

maybe there aren’t
many
it could be that there’s only one word
and it’s all we need
it’s here in this pencil

every pencil in the world
is like this”
― W. S. Merwin

“You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are”
― Heather Brewer, Twelfth Grade Kills

“Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up”
― Heather Brewer, Twelfth Grade Kills

“My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Once you learn how to die you learn how to live”
― Morrie Schwartz, Morrie: In His Own Words