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  • #1
    Jennifer Egan
    “I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
    Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

  • #2
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #3
    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #5
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #6
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

  • #7
    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #8
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    May Sarton

  • #9
    John Berger
    “When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
    John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

  • #11
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #12
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #13
    John Steinbeck
    “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #14
    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #15
    Jaclyn Moriarty
    “She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...]
    My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed.
    Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see.”
    Jaclyn Moriarty, Feeling Sorry for Celia

  • #16
    Woodrow Wilson
    “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #17
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #18
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #19
    Deb Caletti
    “We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #20
    Deb Caletti
    “Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #21
    Deb Caletti
    “When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #22
    Deb Caletti
    “And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #23
    Deb Caletti
    “Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #24
    Deb Caletti
    “Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #25
    Deb Caletti
    “Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #26
    Deb Caletti
    “At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t.

    Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #27
    Deb Caletti
    “I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #28
    Deb Caletti
    “Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
    tags: truth

  • #29
    Deb Caletti
    “But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #30
    Deb Caletti
    “I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming



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