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#1

“Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.”
― Mary Berry

tags: cake, food, health, mary-berry

986 likes

#2

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

2235 likes

#3

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

2058 likes

#4

“I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.”
― Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe

tags: acting, inspiration, lauren-graham

225 likes

#5

“Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.”
― Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe

tags: inspiration, lauren-graham, smile

65 likes

#6

“Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.”
― Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe

tags: acting, inspiration, lauren-graham

27 likes

#7

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

3792 likes

#8

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: jane-austen

1361 likes

#9

“Be who you are. / Give what you have.”
― Rose Ausländer

1052 likes

#10

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

tags: reading

958 likes

#11

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

tags: books, reading

1995 likes

#12

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe

1444 likes

#13

“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

4366 likes

#14

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

1346 likes

#15

“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

1070 likes

#16

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”
― John Masefield

1334 likes

#17

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

1783 likes

#18

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling

5348 likes

#19

“It was like staring at a piece of art or the stars in the sky. I just had to watch him.
-Kahlen, The Siren”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: admiration, adoration, akinli, kahlen, kiera-cass-quotes, the-siren-quotes

62 likes

#20

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: book, books, kahlen, kiera-cass, reading, siren, the-siren

225 likes

#21

“She would want me to forget all about him. But how could eyes not notice the light? How could lungs not acknowledge the air? There are just some things you can't ignore.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: life, love

49 likes

#22

“Love is a risk worth taking.
I'd waited an eternity for this.
I'd have waited all over again if I had to.
I was meant to be kiss this boy, designed to be held by him.
All the careful postures I held melted away, and I pulled him closer.
We were stars.
We were music.
We were time.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: thisbookomygod

74 likes

#23

“There’s always room for love. Even if it’s as small as a crack in the door.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: kiera-cass, love, the-siren

128 likes

#24

“Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: kiera-cass, love, soul, soulmate, the-siren

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#25

“It seems to me that we value individuality, but only to a point. When what sets one person apart from another is beyond our understanding or becomes too much to handle, we dismiss the quirk and the soul that accompanies it to give ourselves the greatest comfort. What does that accomplish?”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

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#26

“Instead of worrying about taking, we should worry about giving. We can’t stop the take. But we can do a hell of a lot about the give.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

28 likes

#27

“It was the color of ice and honey and sky and rain mixed together into a sheet of flawless glass with broken frothy edges that tickled my feet”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

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#28

“Life is pointless. Love is pointless. And still, wouldn’t I do every second of it all over again?”
“I’m guessing yes.“
“Undoubtedly. Yes.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: kiera-cass, life, love, the-siren

32 likes

#29

“Am I talking too much?” He paused, staring into my eyes, genuine worry coloring his face.
I shook my head. No, I thought, I’d listen to you talk about nearly anything. You make phone calls sound like an adventure.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

tags: adventures, love, phone, talk

25 likes

#30

“She told me to live. . . . I didn’t know how to tell Her that simply being alive was not enough to be called living.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

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