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“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
― Bill Watterson

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I want to hide, fold into the shadows and become invisible so no-one can look at me any more.”
― Louise O'Neill, Only Ever Yours

“I dream of things I know nothing about.”
― Louise O'Neill, Only Ever Yours

“She's beautiful, but it's a faded beauty now, as if she's been washed too many times.”
― Louise O'Neill, Only Ever Yours

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”
― Marian Keyes, Watermelon

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”
― Natalie Newman, Butterflies and Bullshit

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams

“Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can’t trust a librarian, who can you trust?”
― Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt