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#1

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

tags: romantic

5553 likes

#2

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

250 likes

#3

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

2809 likes

#4

“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

tags: sorrow

362 likes

#5

“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

2545 likes

#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

107 likes

#7

“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

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life, purpose-of-life

79 likes

#8

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

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51616 likes

#9

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: men, mountains, rocks

5057 likes

#10

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

tags: beautiful, love-story, quote, romance, the-viscount-who-loved-me, true

56 likes

#11

“...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

tags: feminism, sorority

6 likes

#12

“Time will explain.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: time

477 likes

#13

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

tags: perfection

5742 likes

#14

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

tags: falsehood, family, friends, insincerity, kindness, loneliness, pretense

663 likes

#15

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

6 likes

#16

“No one is you and that is your biggest power.”
― Dave Grohl

tags: inspirational

38 likes

#17

“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

tags: bridgerton, love, marriage

773 likes

#18

“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

tags: love

5296 likes

#19

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

tags: quotes

6178 likes

#20

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

16 likes

#21

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

8 likes

#22

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

29 likes

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