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57481c5 There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. friendship Irving Stone
2961cd3 I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh li.. teen-fantasy Cassandra Clare
62897a8 A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. religion C.S. Lewis
4514e2c Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. act action do doing inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking right truth what-is-easy what-is-popular what-is-right Roy T. Bennett
81c5b47 If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. love inspirational Bob Marley
4f8a671 It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful. love inspirational Stephenie Meyer
99a1963 To define is to limit. lord-henry-wotton wilde Oscar Wilde
eef6e84 Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, .. perspective space Carl Sagan
de23a10 So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains. inspirational success humor Dr. Seuss
0eb5297 We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. philosophy Richard Dawkins
7c92092 Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down. accept-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-moving-forward letting-go life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living love-yourself optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
a801e29 And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exist.. books politics Kurt Vonnegut
d1eccaa Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. inspirational J.K. Rowling
2881b83 I never change, I simply become more myself. Joyce Carol Oates
105b070 Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. dance inspirational Rumi
fc3bb2f It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. poets romance E.M. Forster
5a40528 Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet. humor J.K. Rowling
c5a4a1d What are men to rocks and mountains? mountains rocks Jane Austen
5acc3bd At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved. John Green
68637d7 You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. joh-green nerdfighters John Green
c866ee1 Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. "I can't believe you did it!" she exclaimed. "How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said. Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. "Not permanently?" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back," he added thoughtfully. "In which cas.. clary-fray humor isabelle-lightwood jace-wayland simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
8720039 You is kind. You is smart. You is important. inspirational Kathryn Stockett
d3a030a And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. gullibility honesty Khaled Hosseini
739e574 Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. humor reading Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
751864e Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are." "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies." jace-wayland joke mummies sarcasm vampire werewolf zombies Cassandra Clare
9631e6e I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery--air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy." happiness nature Sylvia Plath
486c7b8 If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED god life music kurt vonnegut
c2d107c People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. people Rick Riordan
fd667ff The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say J.R.R. Tolkien
8da37df Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. inspirational love redemption sadness art Clive Barker
58445c9 And so it goes... Kurt Vonnegut
c245c7e Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others. brave courage dreams inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking purpose vision Roy T. Bennett
81793cf We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. invention quip wings writing Kurt Vonnegut
a72fedb The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. Sylvia Plath
0534fe6 Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. suffering Paulo Coelho
c73909d Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. pretend Orson Scott Card
13dd10a There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. dignity elizabeth-bennet empowerment fear independence intimidation self-determination strength stubbornness women Jane Austen
1a45d20 It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Cassandra Clare
a6a3d85 Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of .. Elizabeth Gilbert
dc526b1 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. real-life reality Philip K. Dick
bc4070c Fall down again, Bella?' No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face. eclipse emmet-cullen jacob-black stephenie-meyer twilight werewolf Stephenie Meyer
4c09cfe The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
0032981 I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. mercy Oscar Wilde
71fbf53 Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar." feelings reading thoughts Cornelia Funke