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#1

“...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.”
― Alison Croggon, The Naming

tags: beautiful-language, description, joy, sunlight

5 likes

#2

“The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.”
― Alison Croggon, The Riddle

tags: beautiful-imagery, beautiful-writing, nature, night, stars

3 likes

#3

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

2606 likes

#4

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

tags: destiny, path, questioning

1107 likes

#4

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

tags: fear, ignorance, inspirational, pride

139 likes

#5

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

2863 likes

#6

“It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

tags: fear

249 likes

#7

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

2379 likes

#9

“When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.”
― Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

tags: humor

34 likes

#10

“Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?”
― Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

tags: georgia-nicholson, humor, lousie-rennison

26 likes

#11

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

3549 likes

#12

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2361 likes

#13

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

2477 likes

#14

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

tags: nonfiction, pretty

1522 likes

#15

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

1818 likes

#16

“Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: chocolate, death, perception, stress

21 likes

#18

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

9860 likes

#19

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: friendship, snow

3312 likes

#20

“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.”
― Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief

1428 likes

#21

“It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

776 likes

#22

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

2285 likes

#23

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

tags: perfection

999 likes

#24

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2474 likes

#25

“What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.”
― Carolyn Kizer

924 likes

#26

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: memories, past

2425 likes

#27

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

896 likes

#28

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

1237 likes

#29

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

3627 likes

#30

“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
― James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

844 likes

#31

“A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: beautiful, description, lovely, sunlight

3 likes

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