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“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
― D.H. Lawrence

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

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

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
― Vandana Shiva

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
― Arthur Miller

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques--literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own