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“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” —L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.” —Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“She was lost in her longing to understand.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” —T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.” —Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” —Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” —Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

“At the still point, there the dance is.” —T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”

There is a sense in which we are all each other’s consequences. – Wallace Stegner, All the Little Five Things

“America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”—Allen Ginsburg, “America”

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.” —W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet

And it that moment, I swear we were infinite. – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” —W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” —John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.” —Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.” —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’ —Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“What are men to rocks and mountains?” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.” —Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Isn’t it pretty to think so? – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.” —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” —J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”

At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. – Willa Cather, My Antonia