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“Being crazy isn't enough.”

Dr. Seuss

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

Sigmund Freud

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

Cicero

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

William Goldman,

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

Winston S. Churchill

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”

Albert Camus

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

Ursula K. Le Guin,

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”

Leigh Bardugo,

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”

S.E. Hinton,

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

Mark Twain

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

Anthony G. Oettinger

“Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”

J.K. Rowling,

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

William Faulkner

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

J.K. Rowling

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

Lewis Carroll,

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”

Chuck Palahniuk,

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

Mark Twain,

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

Oscar Wilde

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

Chuck Palahniuk,

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”

Paul Auster,

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

Terry Pratchett

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

Dale Carnegie,

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

Coco Chanel

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”

Suzanne Collins,

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”

Audrey Hepburn

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”

Bette Davis

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”

Nicholas Sparks,

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

Maya Angelou

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

Pablo Picasso

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”

Rick Riordan,

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.”

Henry Rollins,

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

Oscar Wilde,

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

William Faulkner

“And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.”

Paul McCartney,

“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”

Roy T. Bennett,

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

Patrick Rothfuss,

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

C.S. Lewis

“If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busyâ€� is another word for “asshole.â€� “Assholeâ€� is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.”

Greg Behrendt

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

Terry Pratchett,

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

Vladimir Nabokov,

“Resist much, obey little.”

Walt Whitman,

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”

Mark Twain

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

Agatha Christie

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

Kahlil Gibran

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

Winston S. Churchill

“I don't want to die without any scars.”

Chuck Palahniuk,

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”

Roy T. Bennett,

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

Mark Twain,

“If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

William Shakespeare,

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

J.R.R. Tolkien,

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

Mark Twain

“Angry people are not always wise.”

Jane Austen,

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

Confucious

“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”

John Green,

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”

Mother Teresa

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

C.S. Lewis

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

Mortimer J. Adler

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”

Louisa May Alcott,

“You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”

J.K. Rowling,

“Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”

Cassandra Clare,

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”

John Green,

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”

Cassandra Clare

“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”

John Green

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

Stephen King

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”

John Green,

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Douglas Adams,

“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”

Suzanne Collins,

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Anonymous,

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

Anton Chekhov

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.â€�I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”

Andrew Boyd,

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

Stephen King,

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant.”

Rick Riordan,

“When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.”

William Shakespeare,

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

Joan Crawford

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”

Veronica Roth,

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

Haruki Murakami,

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”

Stephen King

“Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?""Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?""Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.”

Rick Riordan,

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”

Patrick Ness,

“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”

John Green,

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

Margaret Mitchell

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”

Stephen Chbosky,

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours”

Kinky Friedman

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

George Burns

“Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.”

Cassandra Clare,

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

Roy T. Bennett,

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”

Suzanne Collins,

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”

Nicholas Sparks,