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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #2
    Matt Haig
    “Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever.”
    Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

  • #3
    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
    Jean de La Fontaine

  • #4
    Henry James
    “Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
    Henry James

  • #5
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

  • #6
    “Humans’ preoccupation with ‘being happy’ was something he had never been able to figure out. No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.”
    Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

  • #7
    Matt Haig
    “Is happiness the aim?"
    "I don't know. I suppose I want my life to mean something. I want to do something good,”
    Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Julia Quinn
    “the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.”
    Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

  • #11
    Joanna Shupe
    “...Stop worrying about her."
    "Women must worry about other women," she snapped. "God knows men won't do it."
    - Annabelle.”
    Joanna Shupe, The Prince of Broadway

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “Time will explain.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: time

  • #13
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #14
    Edith Wharton
    “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
    Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

  • #15
    Edith Wharton
    “It's a hundred years since we've met - it may be another hundred before we meet again.”
    Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

  • #16
    Dave Grohl
    “No one is you and that is your biggest power.”
    Dave Grohl

  • #17
    Julia Quinn
    “Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.”
    Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

  • #18
    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #19
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #20
    K.A. Tucker
    “That wanting someone to be something they’re not won’t make it happen.”
    K.A. Tucker, The Simple Wild

  • #21
    K.A. Tucker
    “When I’m with you, I forget about everything else. You make me feel like myself again.”
    K.A. Tucker, Running Wild

  • #22
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I am not a muse.
    I am the somebody.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid , Daisy Jones & The Six



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