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

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Collected Poems

“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

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“How shall I go on, with my introspective and ambitious life?”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Why do people keep asking to see God’s identity papers when the darkness opening into morning is more than enough?”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“how wonderful to be who I am, made out of earth and water, my own thoughts, my own fingerprints—”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
― Louise Glück

“Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.”
― Louise Glück, Descending Figure

“How privileged you are, to be
passionately
clinging to what you love;
the forfeit of hope has not destroyed you.”
― Louise Glück, October

“You’re not a creature in body.
You exist as the stars exist,
participating in their stillness, their immensity.”
― Louise Glück

“How wonderful to be who I am,
made out of earth and water,
my own thoughts, my own fingerprints -
all that glorious, temporary stuff.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare