January 2012
360 posts
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“As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot....”
– Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
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“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to...”
– Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding...”
– Ernest J. Gaines
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“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Hermann Hesse
December 2011
211 posts
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“My soul is in the sky.”
– William Shakespeare
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“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not...”
– Laurell K. Hamilton
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
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“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world...”
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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“Whatever you are physically… male or female, strong or weak, ill or...”
– Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...”
– Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
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“What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Without literature, life is hell.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because...”
– Victoria Moran, Lit from Within: Tending Your Soul for Lifelong Beauty
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“Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like...”
– Charles M. Schulz
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“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“I’m afraid of time… I mean, I’m afraid of not having enough...”
– Ann Brashares
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there...”
– Frida Kahlo
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“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know...”
– Greg Behrendt, He’s Just Not That Into You
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“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone...”
– Charles M. Schulz
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“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together...”
– Margaret Mitchell
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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all...”
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
– Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when...”
– Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
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“It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and...”
– George Harrison
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“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men,...”
– Sigmund Freud
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“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they...”
– Lev Grossman
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“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human - in not having to be...”
– C. JoyBell C.
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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
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“And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once...”
– Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II
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“You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world,...”
– Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the...”
– Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for...”
– T.S. Eliot
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“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can...”
– E.M. Forster, A Room With a View
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“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
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“I may sound old-fashioned, but I want to think all women should be treated like...”
– Frank Sinatra
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“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you....”
– Greg Behrendt, He’s Just Not That Into You
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“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle....”
– Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers
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“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos...”
– Brian Andreas, Story People
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“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above...”
– Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
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“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why...”
– Emmanuel, Shapes of Silence
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“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation,...”
– Ralph Marston
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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly,...”
– Joyce Carol Oates
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus