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#1

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll

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#2

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery

3505 likes

#3

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

2841 likes

#4

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

2152 likes

#5

“have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

2060 likes

#6

“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice-in-wonderland

1849 likes

#7

“Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

tags: alice, alice-in-wonderland, door, funny, humor, wordplay

1697 likes

#8

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

tags: adventure, explanations, patience, storytelling

1471 likes

#9

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

26175 likes

#10

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

19559 likes

#11

“If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

70 likes

#12

“Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

57 likes

#13

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

5143 likes

#14

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

tags: inconvenient, love, relationship, true-love

3151 likes

#15

“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

tags: america, the-selection

2513 likes

#16

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

3576 likes

#17

“But maybe it is about finding someone whose heart is like a mirror, whose love can make you stand the sight of yourself.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

50 likes

#18

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: feminism, inspirational

665 likes

#19

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

1377 likes

#20

“Stories are both an escape from the truths of the world and the only way to see them clearly.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

tags: stories

181 likes

#21

“I don't think love can be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

tags: fantasy, love

50 likes

#22

“I apologize for many things, but mostly I apologize for making the weight you carry a little heavier.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

tags: apology

21 likes

#23

“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: history

164 likes

#24

“Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

119 likes

#25

“After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

21 likes

#26

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#27

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

21807 likes

#28

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

6947 likes

#29

“Then who would you take up with? A fat innkeeper who only remembers his own name because people shout it at him all day?”
― Tolkein J. R. R.

tags: aragorn, fellowship-of-the-ring, strider

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#30

“One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: incantation, inscription

238 likes

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