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  • #1
    Gloria Whelan
    “They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
    Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions

  • #2
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #3
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    James Joyce

  • #4
    Marianne Moore
    “... we
    do not admire what
    we cannot understand.”
    Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

  • #5
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #6
    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    Colleen Hoover, Slammed

  • #7
    B.K.S. Iyengar
    “The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
    B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

  • #8
    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

  • #9
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #10
    Anzia Yezierska
    “When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
    Anzia Yezierska

  • #11
    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

  • #12
    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

  • #13
    Manuel Puig
    “The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.


    Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

  • #14
    Vera Brittain
    “There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
    Vera Brittain

  • #15
    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #16
    Harlan Coben
    “Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
    Harlan Coben, Promise Me

  • #17
    “ثمة أرواح تعرف قرينها إذا رأته، في الغالب تكون تجربة أولى غير مشوشة بأي مشاعر عابرة أو سابقة، ربما التقت في عالم الذر من قبل، ربما تتشابه تلك الأرواح.”
    آلاء غنيم, الذاهبون إلى الشهادة

  • #18
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    Patricia Highsmith

  • #19
    “Friendship" is just a hot person's way of making you their slave.”
    Burgerpants

  • #20
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    Alice Walker

  • #21
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #22
    Judy Blume
    “Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
    judy blume

  • #23
    N. Scott Momaday
    “As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
    N. Scott Momaday

  • #24
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #25
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #27
    Safa Shaqsy
    “In order to be a better writer, one must always write.”
    Safa Shaqsy, The Finite

  • #28
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #29
    Malala Yousafzai
    “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
    Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

  • #30
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous



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