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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #6
    Suzanne Collins
    “You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #7
    Suzanne Collins
    “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #8
    Suzanne Collins
    “Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #9
    Suzanne Collins
    “Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
    A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
    Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
    And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
    Here it's safe, here it's warm
    Here the daisies guard you from every harm
    Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
    Here is the place where I love you.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #10
    Suzanne Collins
    “I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #11
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #12
    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
    "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #14
    Suzanne Collins
    “You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #15
    Christelle Dabos
    “I think I’m starting to get used to you”
    Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise

  • #16
    Christelle Dabos
    “one never loves someone more than when one knows the least about them.”
    Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise

  • #17
    Christelle Dabos
    “Oh, and by the way, I love you.”
    Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

  • #18
    Christelle Dabos
    “At what moment?" she asked him. "At what moment do we cease to be humans and become objects?"

    Blaise continued to make his way in silence, carrying the lamp at arm's length to spread its light as far as possible. When he finally replied, it was in a different voice from usual, deeper, calmer, and without the slightest stutter: "Some humans are objects while they're alive, Mademoiselle Eulalia.”
    Christelle Dabos, La Mémoire de Babel

  • #19
    Christelle Dabos
    “Ophelia didn't know which prospect was the more terrifying. A world governed by God, or a world governed by men who think they're God.”
    Christelle Dabos, La Mémoire de Babel

  • #20
    Christelle Dabos
    “A little more than that, even.”
    Christelle Dabos, The Storm of Echoes

  • #21
    Christelle Dabos
    “Sie waren heimatlose Seelen inmitten seelenloser Heime”
    Christelle Dabos, La Tempête des échos

  • #22
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #23
    Louisa May Alcott
    “There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #24
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #25
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #26
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #27
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #28
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince



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