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  • #1
    Jandy Nelson
    “Each time someone dies, a library burns.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #2
    Jandy Nelson
    “I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #3
    Jandy Nelson
    “... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #4
    Anna Akhmatova
    “You will hear thunder and remember me,
    And think: she wanted storms. The rim
    Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
    And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #5
    Sara Shepard
    “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it”
    Sara Shepard, Wanted

  • #6
    Sara Shepard
    “Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.”
    Sara Shepard, Wanted

  • #7
    Rick Riordan
    “But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #8
    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

  • #9
    “Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
    Mary Schmich

  • #10
    Kahlil Gibran
    “To belittle, you have to be little.”
    Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

  • #11
    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #12
    Robin Sloan
    “Some of them are working hard indeed."
    "What are they doing?"
    "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious: "They are reading.”
    Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

  • #13
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #14
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #15
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #16
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #17
    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #18
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #19
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #20
    “Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”
    robert m drake

  • #21
    “Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.”
    robert m drake

  • #22
    “You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.”
    Robert M. Drake, Beautiful Chaos

  • #23
    “We are 93 million miles from the sun. 238 thousand miles from the moon. A moment from finding magic and one kiss away from reaching our dreams.”
    Robert M. Drake, Beautiful Chaos

  • #24
    Brandon Sanderson
    “... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #25
    Bernhard Schlink
    “Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #26
    Bernhard Schlink
    “It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #27
    Bernhard Schlink
    “Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #28
    Bernhard Schlink
    “Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #29
    Bernhard Schlink
    “What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #30
    Bernhard Schlink
    “So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader



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