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  • #1
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #3
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #4
    Brandon Sanderson
    Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone.
    But that does not mean that I walked alone.

    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #5
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #6
    Isaac Asimov
    “people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves.”
    Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

  • #7
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #9
    Gary Paulsen
    “And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
    tags: funny

  • #10
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • #11
    Ben Lerner
    “The opposite of a truth," Klaus quoted, "is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth...may be another profound truth." [Niels Bohr]”
    Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: pain

  • #12
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #13
    Ian McEwan
    “Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.”
    Ian McEwan, Saturday

  • #14
    Isaac Asimov
    “In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.”
    Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

  • #15
    Gary Paulsen
    “Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

  • #16
    C.S. Lewis
    “Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #17
    Gary Paulsen
    “Not hope that he would be rescued--that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope.”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

  • #18
    Lois Lowry
    “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #19
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #20
    Lois Lowry
    “I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #23
    Criss Jami
    “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
    Criss Jami

  • #24
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    Robert Frost

  • #25
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

    It's really funny.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

  • #26
    Brandon Sanderson
    “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #27
    John  Williams
    “To read without joy is stupid.”
    John Williams



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