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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #2
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    James Baldwin

  • #3
    Brendan Behan
    “I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”
    Brendan Behan

  • #4
    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    James Baldwin

  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #6
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. For X please insert words like “anger,” “ambition,” “loudness,” “stubbornness,” “coldness,” “ruthlessness.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

  • #7
    Susanna Clarke
    “The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
    Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #9
    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    Confucius

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #11
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #12
    Laini Taylor
    “I would have chosen you, if they had let me choose.”
    Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

  • #13
    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #15
    Banana Yoshimoto
    “No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”
    Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

  • #16
    Heraclitus
    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
    Heraclitus

  • #17
    Vincent van Gogh
    “The sadness will last forever.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #18
    Warsan Shire
    “To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire.”
    Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

  • #19
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #20
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #21
    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #22
    Jay Kristoff
    “I am the war you cannot win.”
    Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

  • #23
    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #24
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #25
    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #26
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #27
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “We all fight our own private wars.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #28
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #29
    Tony DiTerlizzi
    “Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.”
    Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

  • #30
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh



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