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“At the still point, there the dance is.”
- T. S. Eliot
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“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there
leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
- J. D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
- Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’”
- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down,
but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
14.
“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts
and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone, and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
- W. H. Auden, The More Loving One
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“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”
- Allen Ginsburg, America
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“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat,
but it was a defeat better than many victories.”
- W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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“At the still point, there the dance is.”
- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question
he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.”
- Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
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“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.”
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
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“How wild it was, to let it be.”
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild
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“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?”
- T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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“She was lost in her longing to understand.”
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which
we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
- Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us,
with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke,
and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“The half life of love is forever.”
- Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her
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“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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“There are darknesses in life and there are lights,
and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
- Bram Stroker, Dracula
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“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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“I could hear the human noise we sat there making,
not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
- Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
- Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
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“I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”
- W. B. Yeats, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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“It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.”
- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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“For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”
- Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded;
not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things,
packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Remember that.”
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“One must be careful of books, and what is inside them,
for words have the power to change us.”
- Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices
