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  • #1
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #2
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again." For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #3
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.

    I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

  • #4
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Hope hurt more than the cold.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #5
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #6
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “...she made her home in between the pages of books.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

  • #7
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #8
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Some stories are so familiar its like going home.”
    Louisa May Alcott

  • #9
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #10
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #11
    Louisa May Alcott
    “You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #12
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #13
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
    "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
    Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

  • #14
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #15
    Charlotte Brontë
    “We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #16
    Charlotte Brontë
    “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
    Charlotte Brontë

  • #17
    Kami Garcia
    “Every day was like a day out of someone else's life. Nothing had ever happened to me, and now everything was happening to me -- and by everything, I really meant Lena. An hour was both faster and slower. I felt like I had sucked the air out of a giant balloon, like my brain wasn't getting enough oxygen. Clouds were more interesting, the lunchroom less disgusting, music sounded better, the same old jokes were funnier, and Jackson went from being a clump of grayish-green industrial buildings to a map of times and places where I might run into her. I found myself smiling for no reason, keeping my earphones in and replaying our conversations in my head, just so I could listen to them again. I had seen this kind of thing before. I had just never felt it.”
    Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

  • #18
    Kami Garcia
    “Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.”
    Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

  • #19
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

  • #21
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

  • #22
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Books are more real when you read them outside.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #23
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #24
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You're getting your weird all over me.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

  • #25
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #26
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)
    Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming,
    so that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding,
    Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #27
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “You darkness, that I come from,
    I love you more than all the fires
    that fence in the world,
    for the fire makes
    a circle of light for everyone,
    and then no one outside learns of you.

    But the darkness pulls in everything:
    shapes and fires, animals and myself,
    how easily it gathers them! -
    powers and people -

    and it is possible a great energy
    is moving near me.

    I have faith in nights.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #28
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret abyss in which others find their end: again and again the two of us go out under the ancient trees, make our bed again and again between the flowers, face to face with the skies”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #29
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
    to make every moment holy.
    I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough
    just to lie before you like a thing,
    shrewd and secretive.
    I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,
    as it goes toward action;
    and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,
    when something is coming near,
    I want to be with those who know secret things
    or else alone.
    I want to be a mirror for your whole body,
    and I never want to be blind, or to be too old
    to hold up your heavy and swaying picture.
    I want to unfold.
    I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
    because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
    and I want my grasp of things to be
    true before you. I want to describe myself
    like a painting that I looked at
    closely for a long time,
    like a saying that I finally understood,
    like the pitcher I use every day,
    like the face of my mother,
    like a ship
    that carried me
    through the wildest storm of all.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #30
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #31
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars
    that like swift horses through the heavens raced
    and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
    of our wishes -- do you recall? And we
    did make so many! For there were countless numbers
    of stars: each time we looked above we were
    astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
    while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
    watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
    knowing somehow we had survived their fall.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke



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