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“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ”

—Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 

“The point is, there are maybe three or four big choices that shape someone's whole life. And you need to be the one that makes them... not anyone else.”

—Supernatural

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. ”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. "I was walking home from ballet and a guy in a car yelled, 'Lick me!'" "I was babysitting my younger cousins when a guy drove by and yelled, 'Nice ass.'" There were pretty much zero examples like "I first knew I was a woman when my mother and father took me out to dinner to celebrate my success on the debate team." It was mostly men yelling shit from cars. Are they a patrol sent out to let girls know they've crossed into puberty? If so, it's working.”

—Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

—Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights 

“Here’s what I’ve learned - people will hurt you, but you don’t have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.”

—John Geddes

“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”

—Dave Eggers, What is the What

“Don't think you're the only bastard who ever suffered--just write as if you were.”

—William Logan

“You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.”

—Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.”

—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

—Ernest Hemmingway

“There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.”

—Zelda Fitzgerald, Save me the Waltz

“I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.”

—Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events

“And I'll know people like you, " I went on, "people who have thoughts in their heads and quick tongues with which to voice them, and we'll sit in cafes and we'll drink together and we'll clash with each other violently in words, and we'll talk for the rest of our lives in divine excitement.”

—The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.” ”

—Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“The man falling isn’t permitted to hear or feel himself hit the bottom.”

—J.D. Salinger - “The Catcher in the Rye.”

“I am a cigarette with a body attached to it.”

—Raymond Carver
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