September 2010
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“I want what we all want,” said Carl. “To move certain parts of the interior of...”
– You Don’t Love Me Yet, Jonathan Lethem (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– A Game of You, Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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What If?
“‘What’ and ‘If’ are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: What if?”
- Letters to Juliet
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“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and...”
– Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines (via julie911)
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“Sadness is easier because its surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one...”
– Claire Colburn, Elizabethtown
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I like nonsense.
It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at all of life’s realities.
- Dr. Seuss
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“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for...”
– Gordon Hinckley (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
- Haruki Murakami
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“We push ourselves because we have to, not because we like it. The relentless...”
– Grey’s Anatomy (via comfortinmystrangeness)
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“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love...”
– The Dying Animal, Philip Roth (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see...”
– Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Ending Cycles of Drama
I don’t need to win every battle to learn that I earned the prize, and it’s not always in losing that we lose. Sometimes, you earn more in letting others win from time to time.
- Rosette Marimon
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Chuang-tse and the Tortoise
While sitting on the banks of the P’u River, Chuang-tse was approached by two representatives of the Prince of Ch’u, who offered him a position at court. Chuang-tse watched the water flowing by as if he had not heard. Finally, he remarked, “I am told that the Prince has a sacred tortoise, over two thousand years old, which is kept in a box, wrapped in silk and brocade.”...
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The Secret Garden
Colin: Hair is dead.
Mary: If it's dead, why does it keep growing all the time, even after you're dead? Well, maybe not your hair. You'll probably be bald.
Colin: Don't be daft. I'll die before I'm ever old enough to go bald.
Mary: I hate the way you talk about dying.
Colin: Everyone thinks I'm going to die.
Mary: If everyone thought that about me, I still wouldn't do it.
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The Transubstantiation of Cornelia Brown
I had just buried my lover; I was on my way to another funeral; a child, possibly motherless, possibly kidnapped, rode in the backseat; and I was in love with my sister’s husband. Trust me, no one plans for her life to become the plot of a Bette Davis movie. No one wants that, and all of it would be come crashing down on me. Soon. But just then, in that car, for the duration of the ride, I...
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“You’re impossible,” he murmured. “But you’re worth it.”
– Evernight, Claudia Gray (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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My darling, Wendy.
That was the last time the girl Wendy ever saw him. For a little longer she tried for his sake not to have growing pains; and she felt she was untrue to him when she got a prize for general knowledge. But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her...
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“Bunkum and tummyrot! You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like...”
– Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (via rachmanamira)
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“I believe we write out our own stories and each time we think we know the end,...”
– Little Black Book (via comfortinmystrangeness)
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“Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes, those little...”
– Author Unknown (via pocketstarfield)
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“I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping...”
– Losing Julia, Jonathan Hull (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Success is having others think you are successful.”
– Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother (via quoteswithlove)
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“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power...”
– Groucho Marx | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book) 