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13. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

14. “And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

15. “Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” — Margery Williams, Velveteen Rabbit

16. “Ever’body’s askin’ that. ‘What we comin’ to?’ Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way.” — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

17. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

18. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
19. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

20. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

21. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

22. “It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

23. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

24. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

25. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” — Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
26. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

27. “Tomorrow I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

28. “Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

29. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” — J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

30. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

31. “You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” — Jane Austen, Persuasion

32. “So it goes…” — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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