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  • #1
    Cassandra Clare
    “It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    Muriel Spark
    “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
    Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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

  • #5
    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #6
    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

  • #7
    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

  • #8
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #9
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #10
    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #11
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
    Markus Zusak

  • #12
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #13
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #14
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #15
    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
    Gilda Radner

  • #16
    Jacques Derrida
    “To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
    Jacques Derrida

  • #17
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “You know when people say fine, it generally means ‘leave me the hell alone because I don’t want to talk about what’s really bothering me.' (Susan)”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dark Side of the Moon

  • #18
    Amy Sedaris
    “My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.”
    Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

  • #19
    Franz Kafka
    “You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #20
    Franz Kafka
    “You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.”
    Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

  • #21
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #22
    Paul Klee
    “One eye sees, the other feels.”
    Paul Klee
    tags: art

  • #24
    Chris Abani
    “What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
    Chris Abani

  • #25
    Václav Havel
    “The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
    Vaclav Havel

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
    Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

  • #28
    Lauren Oliver
    “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #29
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    Moliere

  • #30
    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    Francis Bacon

  • #31
    Shirley Hazzard
    “Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
    Shirley Hazzard



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