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“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

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

“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

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

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

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

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

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
― Brian Moore

“I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion”
― Zona Gale

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Powell SJ

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

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

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City

“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

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies