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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.”
― Phil Kaye

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“The day I open my eyes to you,
was also the day I open my heart to you.”
― Jayson Engay

“Everything changes, it all stays the same,

Everyone guilty, no one to blame,

Every way out, brings you back to the start,


Everyone dies to break somebody's heart...”
― Motorhead

“The day I open my eyes to you, was also the day I open my heart to you.”
― Jayson Engay

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

“and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
the first time his fingers touched the keys
the same way a soldier holds his breath
the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
― Andrea Gibson

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”
― Daphne duMaurier

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century