February 2012
45 posts
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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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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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“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may...”
– Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
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“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be...”
– Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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“Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and...”
– E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
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“Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline
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“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths...”
– Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be...”
– John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…And when I...”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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“Enough about my beauty.” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how...”
– William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
– Maya Angelou
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“I had no illusions about you,’ he said. ‘I knew you were silly and...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the...”
– Shana Abé, The Dream Thief
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“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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“It’s hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
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“Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage we did not take
Towards the door...”
– T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“At a single strain of music, the scent of a flower, or even one glimpse of a...”
– Myrtle Reed, Old Rose and Silver
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“Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with...”
– E. M. Forster, Howards End
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“You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters
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“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient...”
– Paulo Coelho, Brida
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“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
– Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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“She went and stood at an open window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the...”
– Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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“Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And...”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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“Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us...”
– Charles Baudelaire, Selected Writings on Art and Literature
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“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
January 2012
60 posts
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“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom....”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald