I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Neil Gaiman

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9,539 Quotes

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

Joyce Carol Oates

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

Margaret Mitchell

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Mary E. Pearson

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Milan Kundera

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Nelson Mandela

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Oscar Wilde

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Paulo Coelho

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

Ralph Ellison

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

Robin McKinley

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.

Sarah Kay

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

Søren Kierkegaard

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

T.S. Eliot

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