March 2012
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle....
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via ophidiophobic)
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a...
– Ernest Hemingway
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She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold...
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
February 2012
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Does anyone have an advice for someone who’s almost letting depression take over?
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That’s the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers...
– Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else...
– Meg Cabot
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His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you—on my knees,...
– Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
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…I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time,...
– Franz Kafka
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Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are...
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation (via ophidiophobic)
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they...
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she...
– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right...
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via ophidiophobic)
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That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become...
– Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
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How about a kiss, Saumensch?” He stood waist-deep in the water for a few...
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. —I shall feel...
– Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around...
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation