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  • #1
    Cassandra Clare
    “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #2
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #3
    Dave Barry
    “It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.”
    Dave Barry

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
    Terry Pratchett, Thud!

  • #5
    Cherise Sinclair
    “No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.”
    Cherise Sinclair, Master of the Mountain

  • #6
    Sarah Vowell
    “Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
    Sarah Vowell

  • #7
    David  Lynch
    “Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
    David Lynch

  • #8
    Brian Andreas
    “I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. ”
    Brian Andreas

  • #9
    Leanna Renee Hieber
    “Coffee first. Schemes later.”
    Leanna Renee Hieber, Darker Still

  • #10
    Abigail Reynolds
    “I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.”
    Abigail Reynolds, Pemberley by the Sea

  • #11
    Darynda Jones
    “The next thing I remembered was Reyes smiling down at me as the sun filtered into his apartment, his hair mussed, his lids hooded with the thick remnants of sleep. I stretched as those three little words that every girl longs to hear slipped from his mouth with effortless ease. As though they did every day. As though they didn't mean the world to me.

    With one corner of his mouth tipping sensually, he asked, "Want some coffee?"

    And I fell.

    I fell hard.”
    Darynda Jones, Sixth Grave on the Edge

  • #12
    Gertrude Stein
    “Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup”
    Gertrude Stein, Selected Writings

  • #13
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
    “Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

  • #14
    Amor Towles
    “Either way, he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night.”
    Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

  • #15
    Kevin Sinnott
    “I never said I liked coffee better than sex. I said I'd had it more.”
    Kevin Sinnott

  • #16
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #17
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #18
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #19
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Mae West
    “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
    Mae West

  • #22
    Vera Nazarian
    “It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."

    Let's be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.

    Siblings fight, pull each other's hair, steal stuff, and accuse each other indiscriminately.

    But siblings also know the undeniable fact that they are the same blood, share the same origins, and are family.

    Even when they hate each other.

    And that tends to put all things in perspective.”
    Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #24
    Brenna Yovanoff
    “I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.”
    Brenna Yovanoff, The Replacement

  • #25
    Aimee Bender
    “Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”
    Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

  • #26
    Sam Levenson
    “Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”
    Sam Levenson



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