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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

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

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”
― Christina Stead, Miss Herbert (the suburban wife)

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka