“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library ... See MoreSee Less

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."
- Pliny the Elder ... See MoreSee Less

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."
- William Wordsworth ... See MoreSee Less

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.”
― Søren Kierkegaard ... See MoreSee Less

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges ... See MoreSee Less

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien ... See MoreSee Less

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief ... See MoreSee Less

"For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist."
- Vladimir Nabokov ... See MoreSee Less

“I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.”
― Anne Brontë ... See MoreSee Less

"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind."
- W.H. Auden ... See MoreSee Less

“I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.”
― Umberto Eco ... See MoreSee Less

"I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams."
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells ... See MoreSee Less

"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before."
- G.K. Chesterton ... See MoreSee Less

"But at last I could resist the impulse no longer, and, promising faithfully to return to them, and parting, as I will confess, from these four-day friends with tears, I went out again into the streets that had lately been so dark and strange and empty."
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells ... See MoreSee Less

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.”
― Blaise Pascal ... See MoreSee Less