December 2011
55 posts
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“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it...”
– Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Dec 31st
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“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to....”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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“Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their...”
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Dec 28th
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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
589 notes
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“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra  
Dec 26th
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“Whatever comes,” she said, “cannot alter one thing. If I am a...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
173 notes
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
Love and all the best. 
Dec 25th
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“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Dec 24th
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“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it....”
– L. M. Montgomery, The Story Girl
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Dec 22nd
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“In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he...”
– Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“Deep in the meadow, under the willow A bed of grass, a soft green pillow Lay...”
– Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Dec 17th
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“What you have brought into the world may be utterly alien, it may share none of...”
– Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my...”
– W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
Dec 16th
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“It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with...”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Dec 15th
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“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and...”
– Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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“Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than...”
– Paulo Coelho, Brida
Dec 14th
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“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate...”
– Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand...”
– Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Dec 13th
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“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to...”
– Voltaire, Candide
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian
Dec 11th
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“We all have our time machines.Those that take us back are memories…And...”
– H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world....”
– Max Ehrmann, Desiderata 
Dec 10th
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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it...”
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who...”
– Sophocles, Antigone
Dec 9th
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“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals,...”
– Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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“In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers...”
– Lewis Carroll, Life is but a Dream
Dec 8th
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“It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the...”
– Baroness Emma Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing...”
– G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Dec 7th
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“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have...”
– Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dec 5th
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“But I’m glad you’ll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn’t want...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 5th
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