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“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
—Dr. Seuss

"In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." ----Baudelaire

“Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

“It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Just when you think there isn't any point to life - "he said, "then, all of a sudden, you realize that you are being aimed right straight at something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

"A label is a word we plaster over someone's face to keep from having to really know them."---MR

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz