Tove Jansson quote: "When they reached the top of the hill they turned and looked down at the valley. Moominhouse was just a blue dot, and the river a narrow ribbon of green: the swing they couldn't see at all. "We've never been such a long way from home before," said Moomintroll, and a little goose-fleshy thrill of excitement came over them at the thought."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN

I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST

You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES

We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY

Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.”
“Oh?” I turn at the wais...
J.A. REDMERSKI

Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Good, that's a job well done," Grishmak said cheerfully. "Am I the only one who's hungry?
STUART HILL

His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars �...
J.A. REDMERSKI

You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER

don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES

The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY

If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET

I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE

He's gawking at me when I open the door.
"Damn girl," he says, looking me over, "what the hell...
J.A. REDMERSKI

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT

I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS

We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON

oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless- ...
BARBARA BLATNER

I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER

...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
BARBARA BLATNER

Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA

He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK

My plant is probably dead."
Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?"
I smile. ...
J.A. REDMERSKI

She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES

The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN

What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a...
LUCAS SCOTT

I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON

She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN

Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING

I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA

I have never been one for the over-the-top.
RICK ALLEN

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS

She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ...
REBECCA HARRIS

Never thought I’d intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I mean...
J.A. REDMERSKI

Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.

Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a ...
RICK RIORDAN

This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY

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