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#1

“Zapped while zipping.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

tags: sadness

#2

“There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

23 likes

#3

“Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

83 likes

#4

“If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”
― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

42 likes

#5

“Henry's in the cupbord,' Richard said. 'I opted to sit this one out. Would it be incovenient for me to stay?”
― N.D. Wilson, 100 Cupboards

5 likes

#6

“There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.”
― James Patterson and Jill Dembowski, Witch & Wizard: The Fire - Free Preview: The First 34 Chapters

14 likes

#7

“Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: funny, wonderland

562 likes

#8

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

4085 likes

#9

“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

60 likes

#10

“You saying God vain? I ast.
Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

8 likes

#11

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: identity, pretend

4102 likes

#12

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165643 likes

#13

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

178094 likes

#14

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148855 likes

#15

“Love: It will kill you and save you, both”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

2216 likes

#16

“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: inspirational

1799 likes

#17

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35703 likes

#18

“So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

28 likes

#19

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

tags: christmas

3123 likes

#20

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

tags: life, world

2696 likes

#21

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

tags: inspirational-life

2292 likes

#22

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

tags: books

2569 likes

#23

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

22535 likes

#24

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

1630 likes

#25

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

8127 likes

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