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“What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?”

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Michael Cunningham is an American writer renowned for his novel 'The Hours', which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and gender. more

“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”

Writing Wells Persons Important Real Matter Might Eye Secret Paper Careful Diminish Sharing Secrets

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”

People Writing Political Novel Written Conscience Frightened Orthodoxy

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

“I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.”

Ends Lasts Flower Blue Faded Asters

Book:The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”

Inspirational Freedom Ability Commitment Absence Commit Freedom To Choose Zahir Ability To Choose

Book:The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession

Source: The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession

“The girl in me wanted to slap Lung across his face and yell, "Get your eyes off my sticky buns, ya creep!”

Eye Wanted Faces Girl Lungs Creeps Slap Sticky Buns

Author:Jennifer Rardin

“If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.”

Ifs Mind Mean Matter Crazy Insane Live Life Being Crazy

Author:Kate Winslet

“the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.”

World Wish Stupid Labels World Love

Book:Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation… …we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.”

People Way Feels Persons Long Stills Helping Running Today Opportunity Differences Space Seeing Please Essentials Goodness Separation Bridges Space Between

Author:Yehuda Berg

“So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.”

Long Doe Age Concern Aging Former Latter

Author:Epicurus

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