Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Charlaine Harris

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Daniel Handler

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

Erma Bombeck

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

G.K. Chesterton

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

George Orwell

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

J.K. Rowling

I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.

Jaycee Dugard

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

Jim Henson

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

John Keats

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

Judith Lewis Herman

Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this.

Khushwant Singh

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Lauren Oliver

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Lorrie Moore

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