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#1

“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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#2

“Sometimes you need to make a mess.
-Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

39 likes

#3

“It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

30 likes

#4

“I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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#5

“Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

tags: forgiveness

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#6

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: storytelling

604 likes

#7

“You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: forgetting

128 likes

#8

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: humor, laughter, life

2036 likes

#9

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

3636 likes

#10

“Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#11

“I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

314 likes

#12

“It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#13

“She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

124 likes

#14

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#15

“Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#16

“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

810 likes

#17

“Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: amy, hurt, mean, meanness

599 likes

#18

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: beginning, beginnings, end, fresh-start, new-leaf, start-over, try-again

449 likes

#19

“I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: dreams, growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott

276 likes

#20

“A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

215 likes

#21

“Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott

119 likes

#22

“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tags: knowledge, people, prejudice

318 likes

#23

“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tags: huck-finn, mark-twain, twain

292 likes

#24

“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: the-hobbit

165 likes

#25

“Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

tags: love

253 likes

#26

“People grow up by living.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

41 likes

#27

“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

tags: books, jane-eyre

332 likes

#28

“Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

443 likes

#29

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: inspiration, life

879 likes

#30

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

tags: integrity

702 likes

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