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  • #1
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #4
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #5
    Daphne du Maurier
    “Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
    Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

  • #6
    Erica Bauermeister
    “Scents were like rain, or birds. They left and came back.”
    Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

  • #7
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #8
    Celeste Ng
    “Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
    Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #10
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #11
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.
    "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
    "The big show is inside my head," I said.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #14
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Erica Bauermeister
    “Maybe that’s how it always is, I thought—we all just go along, catching glimpses of one another, thinking we know everything.”
    Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

  • #17
    Erica Bauermeister
    “It’s amazing how easily we can cast ourselves in the role of hero.”
    Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #19
    Erica Bauermeister
    “I hadn’t realized how much I counted on the emotional armor of his friendship until it wasn’t there”
    Erica Bauermeister

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Passion is...it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #24
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #25
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #26
    Damian Dibben
    “Tomorrow we begin again...”
    Damian Dibben, Tomorrow

  • #27
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #28
    Ann Patchett
    “I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

    "But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
    Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

  • #29
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #30
    Ann Patchett
    “There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
    Ann Patchett, The Dutch House



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