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❝ I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there. ❞

- markus zusak

❝ That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what. Now try How and Why. ❞

- margaret atwood

❝ Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting through to the real part of your life—but it's more than that. Sometimes your whole life happens in those years, and the rest of your life it's just the same story playing out with different characters. ❞

- lidia yuknavitch

❝ If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ❞

- ray bradbury

❝ Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes and make them come true. ❞

- d.h. lawrence

❝ I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ❞

- virginia woolf

❝ He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important. ❞

- tim o'brien

❝ The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ❞

- ian mcewan

❝ So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars. ❞

- louise erdrich

❝ I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy. ❞

- neil gaiman

❝ You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. ❞

- john green

❝ I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ❞

- harper lee

❝ I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing. ❞

- mark twain

❝ When I'm afraid of what I see, I pretend it's a play. The dead will rise for applause. We'll all go home. I promise. ❞

- melanie rae thon

❝ There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. ❞

- jane austen

❝ Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. ❞

- margaret mitchell

❝ We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. ❞

- j.k. rowling

❝ Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there? But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can stop when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult. ❞

- l.m. montgomery

❝ You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. ❞

- e.b. white

❝ A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. ❞

- madeleine l'engle

❝ If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. ❞

- frances hodgson burnett

❝ It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. ❞

- yann martel

❝ If you are a dreamer, come in
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar
A hoper, a pray-er, a magic-bean-buyer
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in! ❞

- shel silverstein