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#1

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: alone, attributed-no-source

11792 likes

#2

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7420 likes

#3

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

2368 likes

#4

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: insults, shakespeare

4225 likes

#5

“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

tags: sarah-dessen, this-lullaby

2418 likes

#6

“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: jem-carstairs, will-herondale

6525 likes

#7

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

1878 likes

#8

“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

9868 likes

#9

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: friends, friendship

4308 likes

#10

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: change, holden-caulfield, stasis

1590 likes

#11

“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

695 likes

#12

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

5921 likes

#13

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2627 likes

#14

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

1715 likes

#15

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3062 likes

#16

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

3791 likes

#17

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

2045 likes

#18

“It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

tags: love

1321 likes

#19

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

1276 likes

#20

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1959 likes

#21

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

1879 likes

#22

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

1814 likes

#23

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

5454 likes

#24

“Good becomes perfect, but perfect is an illusion. And illusions are like all spells—temporary and soon broken. And when that happens, feelings change.”
― Erin McCahan, Love and Other Foreign Words

tags: feelings, illusion, love

39 likes

#25

“There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. One moment. Then another. What you did with that moment was up to you. No regrets.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts

16 likes

#26

“Don't settle, okay? Not for anything. I mean it. You only get this one chance at life, far as I know. Take it. Even if its not with me.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts

tags: love

72 likes

#27

“Sometimes, a sigh was all the fight you had left.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts

47 likes

#28

“There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts

tags: acceptance, inspirational, reality

38 likes

#29

“Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

1100 likes

#31

“That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with no humanity.

In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

tags: humanity, rick-yancey, the-infinite-sea

288 likes

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