July 2012
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“You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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“‘One more book’, he had told himself,’ then I’ll stop....”
– George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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“There is only what is. The what-should-be never did exist, but people keep...”
– Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
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“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes and if something did come I...”
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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“People talk about crying from happiness, and it sounds stupid—crying from...”
– Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen
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“A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and...”
– Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
June 2012
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“So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything...”
– Joanne Harris, Blackberry Wine
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...”
– Hermann Hesse
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“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
– Aldous Huxley
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“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy....”
– Brad Meltzer
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“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
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“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
– Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
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“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How...”
– Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul
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“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
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“She asks why I like her.
Might as well ask
Why I breathe.
Maybe tomorrow I...”
– Gail Carson Levine, The Wish
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
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“It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but...”
– Lillian Hellman
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“It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“I’m pretty well cloistered, and I suppose, books mean more than people to...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace
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“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head,...”
– Antonin Artaud
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“I will miss you fleetingly, for a second every now and then, in a moment of...”
– Brinda Taparia, I Will Miss You
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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
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mamihlapinatapai
n. a look shared by two people, each wishing the other will initiate something they both desire, but which neither wants to begin.
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“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate....”
– Deepak Chopra
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“As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside....”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and...”
– Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
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“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off...”
– Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your...”
– Gabriel García Márquez
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“All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very...”
– Adriana Trigiani, Big Cherry Holler
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“For too long, I’ve been telling myself that I could spend all this time with you...”
– Claudia Gray, Stargazer
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“It had never occurred to me that our lives, so closely interwoven, could unravel...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro
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“She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.”
– Sena Jeter Naslund, Four Spirits
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“Anyone else feel like that? Like your life’s a big act. Like you’re...”
– Alex Flinn, Breathing Underwater
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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees,...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories...”
– David Nicholls, One Day
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“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare,...”
– V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina
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“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement
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“Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with...”
– Christopher Pike
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“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But...”
– Steve Kendall
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“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
– Charles Bukowski, Pulp
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“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the...”
– Roderick Thorp
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“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both...”
– Arthur C. Clarke
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“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone...”
– Peter Senge
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“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
– Buddha
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“Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as...”
– Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers
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“Au milieu de l’hiver, j’ai découvert en moi un invincible été. In the depths of...”
– Albert Camus
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“Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people...”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin 