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“You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.”

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Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist born on September 30, 1981. Her works are known for their warmth, humor, and profound emotional depth, which have won her a wide fan base. more

“The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.”

Hands Lasts Faces Girl Courses Grows Doors Expression Baby Thousand Fruit Warrior Kicks Flats Warmth January Kiwi

Author:Sarah Dessen

“What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.”

Years Running Guy Found Born Beats Machines Flaws Hospitals Bleeding Rust Vacant Cuckoos One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.”

Ifs World Kind Real Stories Might Guy Black Figures Flats Being Real Cartoon Goofy Real Funny

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”

Life Firsts May Use Known Intellect Useless Hated Acquisition Useless Things

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us so superior.”

Difficult Ability Behinds Quality Humility Males Superiors Mask Concealing

Author:Victoria Alexander

“A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.”

Littles Sides Water Shadow Down And Silent Legs Length Pool Tails Mice Snakes Beaks Herons

Author:John Steinbeck

“That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.”

Needs America Car Reader Committed Dedicated Theft

Book:Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1

Source: Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1

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