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Why you ask?

because it will enable me to give immediate credit to sites I borrow quotes and photos from, and it will allow me to update faster :) hope you like it!

Love,

Carly

Twenty Six

"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."

-Arnold Bennett

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

-Walt Whitman

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."

-Randy Pausch

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

-Edmund Burke

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

-Emily Bronte

"What a grand thing, to be loved!

What a grander thing still, to love!"

-Victor Hugo

"All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story."

-Diane Setterfield

^nothing is more telling than a story. I love that.

"I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

-Ernest Hemingway

^this picture is entitled 'leaving home.' Doesnt that just break your heart?

"...please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I will always believe the same about you."

-The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

Nothing is going to get better.

It's not."

-Dr. Seuss

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

-Plato

"Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart."

-Phyllis McGinley

"Have you ever heard a joke so many times you've forgotten why its funny? And then you hear it again and suddenly its new. You remember why you loved it in the first place. A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal."

-Big Fish

"And it occured to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought."

-Mark Haddon

"If it's true that your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive."

-Amy Hempel

Impromptu Personal Thought-

"The soul endures. For better or for worse. If you can find beauty in that, you find beauty in everything."

Twenty Five

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

-Albert Camus

"Why did you do all of this for me?" he asked. "I dont deserve it I've never done anything for you."

"You have been my friend" replied Charlotte, "That in itself is a tremendous thing."

-E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

"In a Native American parable, the Creator gathers all the animals and says: "I want to hide something form humans until they are ready for it- the realization that they create their own reality."

"Give it to me. I'll fly it to the moon," says the eagle. "No, one day they will go there and find it."

"How about the bottom of the ocean?" asks the salmon. "No, they will find it there too."

"I will bury it in the great plains," says the buffalo. "They will soon dig and find it there."

"Put it inside them," says the wise grandmother mole.

"Done," says the Creator, "it's the last place they will look."

-Native American Legend

"You are only given a spark of maddness. You mustn't lose it."

-Robin Williams

"Some people care too much...I think it's called love."

-Winnie The Pooh

"If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything."

-Joyce Carol Oates, First Love

"... And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are."

-Phillip Pullman

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder....but it sure makes the rest of you lonely."

-Charlie Brown

"If I would've asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'faster horses.'"

-Henry Ford

"If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him or her the answer to the question. If you dont know anyone, call the operator and tell him or her. Most people dont know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first."

-No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda J

"He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."

-John Green

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something, a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And its as if a hand has come out and taken yours."

-Anon

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

-Paulo Coelho

"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

-Anne Frank

"This is love, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and you hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer

"The secret of a happy marriage is to never stop holding hands."

-Bear Grylls

^can we just take a minute and love that Bear Grylls said that?

Impromptu Personal Thought:

"The greatest irony in life is the fact that our first love is hardly ever the person who treats us as well as we deserve.

Thankfully, our last love is."

Twenty Four

"Just one thing." she says, raising her head and looking me straight in the eye.
"I want you to remember me. If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

"I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days. Three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
-John Keats, from his letters to Fanny Price


"Look, I just wanna have one day that doesn't depend on how everyone else's day goes."
-Claire Foster

"Eyes like cameras
and mind like a library.
I’ll fill it with you."

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson-

"You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?"

-Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult

"…asking someone to say they love you—and she always asked—is like buying yourself a birthday present. It’s more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it."

-Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name, Avi

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
-Mark Twain

^poetry.

"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."
-Edith Sitwell

"We’re going to live like we’re telling the best story in the whole world."

— The Brothers Bloom

I’ve always been yours.
I have only been waiting
for you to be mine.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson-

"for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think."
-The Walking Drum by Louis L’Amour

"I say I Love You
like all the words could choke me
if they don’t come out."
-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson-

^Im not one for PDA...but oh my is that cute

"He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you."

-The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”

— Mason Cooley

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."

— David Grayson

"No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman."

— Van Wyck Brooks

Impromptu Personal Thought:
"Love means wanting to be with someone every second of everyday.
Once you have felt that....you have felt everything.
It as simple, and as complicated as that."

Twenty Three

"…and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything."

-The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

"And suddenly, everything is right. Everything forgiven. Every minute apart and alone, forgotten."
-Ellen Hopkins, Glass

"We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there, together. And that was enough."
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us."

-Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
^horribly depressing...but that book changed how I thought about...everything.

"The air was unusually warm and humid and I wondered if everyone else associated that sensation with childhood, with bare feet and wet grass and fireflies and heat lightning, and repeated entreaties to come in for dinner."

-Losing Julia, Jonathan Hull


"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead."
-Marilyn Monroe

"Do you think I’m wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it’s only noon. You couldn’t be something that hundreds of others are."

-Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer


"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break."
-GK Chesterton

"To live in the world without becoming aware of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books."
-Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

"Ache and the daunting awareness
Of feeling lost. Of loss.
But the knowledge of maybe having something
That I could lose
Comes to me as such a pleasant epiphany,
I could not feel miserable."
- Anon

"My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Impromptu NON-personal thought:
"I believe the word bittersweet was created because of love"
-said by a dear friend of mine, sent via text.
I couldn't resist posting it.