Fifteen

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
--Mark Twain

"It is what you read when you don't have to
that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
--Oscar Wilde

"We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to."
Dave Egger

“I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.”
-John Stienbeck

The love in my heart
and the joy inside my eyes,
Entirely yours.
-Tyler Knott

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
— Margaret Atwood

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
--Mother Teresa

"Love one another,
but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between
the shores of your souls."

Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Kahlil Gibran

"There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sink and never find the strength to rise up again."

--Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

"I love you more than yesterday...And you'll never know how much I loved you then.
--James Patterson

"Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated."

— George Bernard Shaw

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius."

--Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerso


"I don’t know what it means and I don’t care because it’s Shakespeare and it’s like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words."

--Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
^Im so happy I stumbled upon this quote again.
I remember hearing it about two years ago and not understanding--but then I had to memorize and speak Shakespeare's words for two straight months and I dont think I'll ever feel the same.
Jewels in my mouth--exactly.


"Never say love is “like” anything… It isn’t."

--The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon

"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can."

--Life of Pi, Yann Martel

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

--Winnie-The-Pooh, A.A. Milne
^I might possibly want that on my gravestone. Is that morbid?

"I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves to talk."
--The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker

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Impromptu Personal Thought--

"If I can someday walk into a bookstore, and purchase any book that catches my fancy--I will be exactly as rich as I wish to be."