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  • #1
    Stephenie Meyer
    “Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?"
    "Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined.”
    Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

  • #2
    Markus Zusak
    “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #3
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #4
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #5
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #7
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #8
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Emma Donoghue
    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    Emma Donoghue, Room

  • #11
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #12
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #14
    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #15
    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #16
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #17
    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

  • #18
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #19
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #20
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #21
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.'

    Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #22
    Confucius
    “Study the past if you would define the future.”
    Confucius

  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #24
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    Voltaire

  • #25
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    John Locke

  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #27
    Jean Racine
    “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
    Jean Racine

  • #28
    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    Horace Walpole

  • #29
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #30
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close



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