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  • #1
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #2
    Marilyn Monroe
    “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #3
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #4
    Marilyn Monroe
    “She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #5
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #6
    Marilyn Monroe
    “just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #7
    Marilyn Monroe
    “No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #8
    Marilyn Monroe
    “That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.”
    Marilyn Monroe, My Story

  • #9
    Marilyn Monroe
    “When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.”
    Marilyn Monroe, My Story

  • #10
    Marilyn Monroe
    “It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #11
    Jojo Moyes
    “Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #12
    Jojo Moyes
    “You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
    Stephen King, 11/22/63

  • #14
    Suzanne Collins
    “My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #15
    Suzanne Collins
    “Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says.

    “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #16
    Suzanne Collins
    “Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #17
    Suzanne Collins
    “If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #19
    Diane Von Furstenberg
    “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
    Diane Von Furstenberg

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #21
    Haruki Murakami
    “here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #22
    Haruki Murakami
    “Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #24
    Stephen W. Hawking
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.”
    J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

  • #26
    Lang Leav
    “Do you remember the song that was playing the night we met? No, but I remember every song I have heard since you left.”
    Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

  • #27
    Pierce Brown
    “Love and war are two different battlefields.”
    Pierce Brown, Red Rising

  • #28
    Pierce Brown
    “In the face of cold power, she is fire.”
    Pierce Brown, Red Rising

  • #29
    Pierce Brown
    “I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
    Pierce Brown, Red Rising

  • #30
    John  Green
    “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska



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