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  • #1
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #2
    Ray Bradbury
    “Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
    Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

  • #3
    Victor Hugo
    “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #4
    Betty  Smith
    “She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #5
    Jandy Nelson
    “When he plays
    all the flowers swap colors
    and years and decades and centuries
    of rain pour back into the sky”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #6
    “Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home.”
    Donna Lynn Hope

  • #7
    Michelle Y. Frost
    “Never complete. Never whole.
    White skin and an African soul.”
    Michelle Frost

  • #8
    Heather Day Gilbert
    “My homesickness is a tangible thing, like a cannon ball of sadness, just pushing into my heart.”
    Heather Day Gilbert, Guilt by Association

  • #9
    Diana Gabaldon
    “Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
    I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
    I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #10
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
    Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: sea, sky, soul

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced. But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude.--Gratitude not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister. Such a change in a man of so much pride, excited not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not exactly be defined.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #16
    Vera Brittain
    “Perhaps ...
    To R.A.L.

    Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
    And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
    And feel one more I do not live in vain,
    Although bereft of you.

    Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet,
    Will make the sunny hours of spring seem gay,
    And I shall find the white May-blossoms sweet,
    Though You have passed away.

    Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright,
    And crimson roses once again be fair,
    And autumn harvest fields a rich delight,
    Although You are not there.

    But though kind Time may many joys renew,
    There is one greatest joy I shall not know
    Again, because my heart for loss of You
    Was broken, long ago.”
    Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

  • #17
    Vera Brittain
    “Mother says that people like me just become intellectual old maids,' I told him.
    'I don't see why,' he protested.
    'Oh, well, it's probably true!' I said, rather sharply, for misery had as usual made me irritable. 'After the War there'll be no one for me to marry.'
    'Not even me?' he asked very softly.
    'How do I know I shall want to marry you when that time comes?'
    'You know you wouldn't be happy unless you married an odd sort of person.'
    'That rather narrows the field of choice, doesn't it?'
    'Well--do you need it to be so very wide?”
    Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

  • #18
    Vera Brittain
    “He was, I told myself, a unique experience in my existence; I never think definitely of him as man or boy, as older or younger, taller or shorter than I am, but always of him as a mind in tune with mine, in which many of the notes are quite different from mine but are all in the same key.”
    Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

  • #19
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Only God knows how much I love you.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #20
    John Donne
    “Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
    Nor any place be empty quite;
    Therefore I think my breast hath all
    Those pieces still, though they be not unite;
    And now, as broken glasses show
    A hundred lesser faces, so
    My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,
    But after one such love, can love no more.”
    John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

  • #21
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I hope your bacon burns.”
    Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #22
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #23
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl.
    "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said.
    "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #24
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #25
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?"

    "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #26
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #27
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #28
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.”
    “Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #29
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #30
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle



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