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“The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else

“So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

“All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“El rey David tenía un anillo con la inscripción: «Todo pasa.» Cuando se está triste, estas palabras consuelan; cuando se está alegre, producen melancolía. Yo también me he mandado hacer una sortija parecida, con una inscripción judaica, y ella no me permite extralimitarme ni en las alegrías ni en las tristezas. Sí, todo pasará; la vida misma acabará, ¿por qué entonces atribuir tanta importancia a nuestras pequeñas alegrías y dolores?”
― Antón Chéjov

“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”
― Mary Ruefle

“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

- An Eightieth Birthday”
― Tove Jansson, Travelling Light

“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
― Roald Dahl

“if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week;”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin with Biographical Introduction

“Lucy is not one or the other, pure or dirty. Lucy
is Lucy. She could swim in a sewer, have sex with every single person in the world, and she would still never be dirty. I hate him for trying to tell her she
could be.”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“I should have known, before I even knew your name, that you were going to be important.”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Who wants to be normal when you can be interesting instead?”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.”
― Nicholas A. McGirr, Life of Death

“That's the one thing about being blind: you see people as they really are.”
― Marci Lyn Curtis, The One Thing

“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.”
― Rick Riordan

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“There was an old adage that if you couldn't say anything nice, get the hell away before you said something very wrong.”
― Angela Marsons, Lost Girls

“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Children know the truth," says Feng, her voice going very quiet.
I turn to look at her. "What? What do you mean?"
"They haven't learned to walk around with a veil over their eyes. That's a habit that come with adulthood. Kids always know what they see. That's why ghosts can't hide from them.”
― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After