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0ee3734 Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. novelist science-fiction Douglas Adams
dc395a4 It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. Joseph Conrad
047f412 We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. inspirational Philip Pullman
68b5b11 To survive, you must tell stories. Umberto Eco
2600c24 Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free. Paulo Coelho
71c4205 I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. happy sad Stephen Chbosky
3401b84 I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly. ian jamie jared melanie uncle-jeb wanda Stephenie Meyer
960d3a0 It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. John Green
23e7f8b Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat u.. Harper Lee
b068711 You'll get over it..." It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it" is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want .. love Jeanette Winterson
73318c2 Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat u.. Harper Lee
1863688 A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me. war Markus Zusak
f0bc2df Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now. happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living living-now optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
721d3c3 I'm going to keep going until I succeed -- or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years. J.K. Rowling
485b4ac Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. advice-for-daily-living inspirational positive-attitude Walt Whitman
6722497 Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Margaret Atwood
db5c46a When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. life inspirational John Green
f2389c5 However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? inspirational Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
062461a He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. Douglas Adams
67a3300 Words were different when they lived inside of you. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
5742a05 I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God. John Green
7983027 there is a place in the heart tha death inspirational Charles bukowski
750fdcc A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living." living Chuck Palahniuk
4d0b2d1 Don't let the muggles get you down. muggles wit J.K. Rowling
77e88af Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. courage inspirational strength Napoleon Bonaparte
5a61c32 If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Sylvia Plath
b2c3ba3 When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde
7c40127 Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. life mind stories youth Neil Gaiman
8e74265 Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay." divergent funny humor tris veronica-roth Veronica Roth
10ca7f7 If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist? Cassandra Clare
7f520d4 The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. mormont George R.R. Martin
52a093c I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand. love true universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz
565ed3a And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. Douglas Coupland
0434be0 A short story is a different thing altogether - a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger. writing Stephen King
da3fed4 I hate men who are afraid of women's strength. feminism woman women-s-strenth Anaïs Nin
6f31d09 I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know? sadness suicide Ned Vizzini
c915243 If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. "No, I won't let you." "Trust me," I whisper. He holds my gaze for a long moment then lets go. I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. "On the count of three?" Peeta leans down and kisses me once, very gently. "The coun.. Suzanne Collins
86c293b Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. Dean Koontz
0aa210f Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! inspirational Maya Angelou
f0ec91a You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime. Neil Gaiman
4422f12 Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?" "Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..." She shudders and shakes her head. "Terrifying," Will says with mock seriousness. "That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls." "Oh, Shut up." Veronica Roth
28eb7f9 To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. Elizabeth Gilbert
9da26f0 But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise." -- misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt Stephen R. Covey
a96c603 Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path. No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded. Other people think exactly .. Paulo Coelho