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Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn't know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she… Delia Owens
Never underestimate the will of a girl who has nothing left to lose. Delia Owens
We are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. Fredrik Backman
To love someone is like moving into a house. At first you fall in love with all the new things. Fredrik Backman
Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist. Fredrik Backman
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Matt Haig
The only way to learn is to live. Matt Haig
You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it. Matt Haig
Never underestimate the big importance of small things. Matt Haig
Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up when you can't control the outcome. Brené Brown
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do. Brené Brown
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with… Rainer Maria Rilke
The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Mary Shelley
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. Mary Shelley
We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker
The mind of man is capable of anything. Joseph Conrad
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third… Henry James
Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love. Thornton Wilder
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it,… Pearl S. Buck
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. William Faulkner
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Saul Bellow
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it. Jane Austen
Angry people are not always wise. Jane Austen
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. Charlotte Brontë
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! Emily Bronte
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Thomas Hardy
Done because we are too menny. Thomas Hardy
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. Thomas Hardy
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens
We forge the chains we wear in life. Charles Dickens
Everything I know, I know because of love. Leo Tolstoy
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for. Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. Ernest Hemingway
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Mark Twain
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. Mark Twain
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck
Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. John Steinbeck
A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. F. Scott Fitzgerald
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness is never grand. Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. George Orwell
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight. Oscar Wilde
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. Victor Hugo
Love is the only future God offers. Victor Hugo
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo
All human wisdom is contained in these two words: wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas
Moral wounds have this peculiarity, they may be hidden, but they never close. Alexandre Dumas
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. Jules Verne
To bear up under loss; to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief. Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
It is necessary for me to be alone a good deal of the time. Daniel Defoe
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. Daniel Defoe
Until death, it is all life. Miguel de Cervantes
Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought. Miguel de Cervantes
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. Franz Kafka
Paths are made by walking. Franz Kafka
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. Franz Kafka
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Knowing what you want to do is half the battle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People do not know themselves nearly as well as they imagine. Anton Chekhov
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out. Anton Chekhov
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov
The dream had come true after all; the two of them were together. Boris Pasternak
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Own only what you can always carry with you. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is no greater glory than to die for love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We are not in the world to do what we want, but to discover what we are meant to do. Isabel Allende
Memory is fragile, and the space of a single life is brief. Isabel Allende
You are the only one who has the power to decide who you want to be. Mario Vargas Llosa
Inside us there is something that has no name; that something is what we are. Jose Saramago
We have a soul; at times it breaks loose. Jose Saramago
The real hero is always a hero by mistake. Umberto Eco
The things that we love tell us what we are. Umberto Eco
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. Italo Calvino
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. Chinua Achebe
Your own destiny is shaped by what you do today. Chinua Achebe
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Your identity was always invented, what mattered was what you did with it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There is no passion to be found playing small. J.M. Coetzee
The secret of a happy life is to renounce ambition for things that do not matter. Salman Rushdie
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world. Salman Rushdie
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Salman Rushdie
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an… Arundhati Roy
And the air was full of thoughts and things to say. Arundhati Roy
The things we do not know about people are the things that make us human. Jhumpa Lahiri
Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the world turn. Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore
There is no shame in falling down; the shame is in not getting up. Yasunari Kawabata
The road through the mountains is long, but it is the journey that teaches. Natsume Soseki
The purest form of happiness is to read a book in your mother tongue. Orhan Pamuk

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