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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #2
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #4
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #5
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #6
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #7
    Nova Ren Suma
    “Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.”
    Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

  • #8
    Caroline Kepnes
    “The problem with books is that they end.”
    Caroline Kepnes, You

  • #9
    Caroline Kepnes
    “The only thing crueler than a cage so
    small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so
    large that a bird thinks it can fly.”
    Caroline Kepnes, You

  • #10
    Colleen Hoover
    “A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book. The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying, but completely exposed.”
    Colleen Hoover, Verity

  • #11
    Colleen Hoover
    “Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
    Colleen Hoover, Verity

  • #12
    Colleen Hoover
    “No one is likable from the inside out.”
    Colleen Hoover, Verity

  • #13
    Matthew Quick
    “Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?”
    Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

  • #14
    Matthew Quick
    “You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything”
    Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

  • #15
    Marie Kondō
    “The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.”
    Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

  • #16
    Marie Kondō
    “No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.”
    Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

  • #17
    Marie Kondō
    “We should be choosing what we want to keep, not what we want to get rid of.”
    Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

  • #18
    Michelle Obama
    “failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
    Michelle Obama, Becoming

  • #19
    Michelle Obama
    “Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
    Michelle Obama, Becoming

  • #20
    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #21
    Randy Pausch
    “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #22
    Randy Pausch
    “Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. ”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #23
    Randy Pausch
    “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #24
    “It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.”
    Jenny Downham, You Against Me

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, L'Étranger

  • #26
    Albert Camus
    “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #27
    Albert Camus
    “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #29
    Albert Camus
    “After awhile you could get used to anything.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #30
    Gillian Flynn
    “Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

    Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl



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