“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."
[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”
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[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”
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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”
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“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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