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  • #1
    Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
    “Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
    Josephine Hart, Damage

  • #2
    Jeanette Winterson
    “I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #3
    Jeanette Winterson
    “This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #5
    T.S. Eliot
    “I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #7
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

  • #8
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #10
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #11
    Josephine Hart
    “All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.”
    Josephine Hart, Damage

  • #12
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Commitment is an act, not a word”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #14
    Michelle Hodkin
    “Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
    Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

  • #15
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies

  • #16
    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

  • #17
    Suzanne Finnamore
    “Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.”
    Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

  • #18
    Alessandra Torre
    “Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.”
    Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

  • #19
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #20
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness--and that's the fear of it.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Ladies of the Corridor

  • #21
    Homer
    “There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
    Homer, The Odyssey

  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

  • #23
    Toba Beta
    “In this life, when you deny someone an apology,
    you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.”
    Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

  • #24
    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
    Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

  • #25
    James Hilton
    “Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.”
    James Hilton

  • #26
    Maya Angelou
    “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #27
    Jeanette Winterson
    “What you risk reveals what you value.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

  • #28
    Jeanette Winterson
    “When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body



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