If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. - Collum McCann











Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde











I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. - Richard Bach

















There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. - Garth Stein













 



"What does really matter?” I asked
She looked at me as though wondering if she could trust me with some immense secret. Finally she said, “Having someone to love. Being compassionate. Being fully alive every day so that you really see and hear and smell and feel things. - Jonathan Hull

















What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know…I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people. - Peter Cameron





















She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. - Michael Ondaatje


























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I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I’ll love you then. - Cassandra Clare