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“listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go”
― E.E. Cummings

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“What fresh hell is this?”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”
― Dorothy Parker

“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
― Mae West

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
― Mae West

“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
― Mae West

“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
― Mae West

“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
― Mae West

“I'm single because I was born that way.”
― Mae West

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
― Mae West

“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
― Mae West

“Look your best - who said love is blind? ”
― Mae West

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief