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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

Ernest Hemingway

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

Sun Tzu,

“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”

Mitch Albom,

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

Oscar Wilde

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

Mitch Albom,

“Even After All this timeThe Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."LookWhat happensWith a love like that,It lights the whole sky.”

Hafiz

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”

Haruki Murakami

“You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face”

Ian Fleming,

“I don't go out with strangers," I said."Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.”

Becca Fitzpatrick,

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

Oscar Wilde

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”

William Shakespeare,

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”

Anaïs Nin,

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

Marilyn Monroe

“I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.”

Cassandra Clare,

“The future depends on what you do today.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

Moliere

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

Leo Tolstoy

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”

Chuck Palahniuk,

“The only truth is music.”

Jack Kerouac

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”

Sean O'Casey

“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”

Dr. Seuss

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

J.D. Salinger,

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

Steven Spielberg

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”

Ned Vizzini,

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

J.K. Rowling,

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

Epicurus

“Can you surf really well, then?"I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh."Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)”

Rick Riordan

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

Stephen Fry

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

Ray Bradbury

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

Henry David Thoreau

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”

Haruki Murakami,

“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”

Lemony Snicket,

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”

Lauren Conrad

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

Pat Monahan

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”

Chuck Palahniuk,

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

Leo Tolstoy,

“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”

Rick Riordan,

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

Johnny Depp

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

Frank Zappa

“Hope is a waking dream.”

Aristotle

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”

C. JoyBell C.

“to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.”

Ellen Bass

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”

Sylvia Plath,

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

C.S. Lewis

“I got schooled this yearbyaboy.A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in

Colleen Hoover,

“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”

Stephanie Lennox,

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld,

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

Mitch Albom,

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”

Jane Yolen,

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”

Caroline Gordon

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

Ray Bradbury,

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

Oscar Wilde

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

E.E. Cummings

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.”

Gary Paulsen,

“If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?" Max inquired."He's a warlock," said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly," said Isabelle.”

Cassandra Clare,

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”

Cassandra Clare,

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”

Nicole Krauss,

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

James Baldwin,

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”

John Keats,

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”

Melissa Marr,

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

Oscar Wilde

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

Charles Baudelaire

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”

Victor Hugo,

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”

Steve Maraboli,

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”

John Lennon

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

Washington Irving

“I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony”

Richelle Mead,

“Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo,

“The past is never where you think you left it.”

Katherine Anne Porter

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”

C.S. Lewis

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”

Steve Maraboli,

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

Paulo Coelho,

“You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron."What did you have to imitate her for?""She laughed at my mustache!""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.”

J.K. Rowling,

“Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.”

Nicholas Sparks,

“Demon pox, oh demon poxJust how is it acquired?One must go down to the bad part of townUntil one is very tired.Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along—Not the pox, you foolish blocks,I mean this very song—For I was right, and you were wrong!""Will!" Charlotte shouted over the noise, "Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! Jem—" Jem, rising to his feet, clapped his hands over Will's mouth. "Do you promise to be quiet?" he hissed into his friend's ear.Will nodded, blue eyes blazing. Tessa was staring at him in amazement; they all were. She had seen Will many things—amused, bitter, condescending, angry, pitying—but never giddy before.Jem let him go. "All right, then."Will slid to the floor, his back against the armchair, and threw up his arms. "A demon pox on all your houses!" he announced, and yawned."Oh, God, weeks of pox jokes," said Jem. "We're in for it now.”

Cassandra Clare,

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”

Amy Tan,

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

Douglas Adams,

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”

Laurie Halse Anderson,

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

Oscar Wilde

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

Henry Thomas Buckle

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”

Marilyn Monroe

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

Marie Curie

“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.”

Markus Zusak,

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”

David Henry Hwang,

“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”

Lauren Oliver,

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”

George R.R. Martin,

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

Dan Brown,

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

Helen Keller,

“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,

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more”

Lord Byron

“Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”

Cassandra Clare,

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

Bruce Lee

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

Robert Frost

“Gus: "It tastes like..."Me: "Food."Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?"Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table."Gus: "Nicely phrased."Gus's father: "Our children are weird."My dad: "Nicely phrased.”

John Green,

“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”

Gayle Forman,

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”

William S. Burroughs