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books that changed the way i look at the world and some of its quotes
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items here's the list of books that changed the way i look at the world and some of its quotes!! hope you enjoyed it as much as i do.
p.s some (maybe most) of these books made me cry.
“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.” “Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.” “I would like to pause the story a moment to talk about ‘nothing will change’. I’...
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.” “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods...
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
“I don't thin...
Just Kids by Patti Smith
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was o...
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
“Then he smiled. ‘Were you really dreaming of me?”
My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
“And so it goes...”
“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
“I miss you more than I remember you.”
“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you mus...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
“At some point, you just pull ...
Looking for Alaska by John Green
“That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Som...
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory t...
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your...
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic ep...
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get mean...
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
“...it is sad, of course, to forget.
But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
To remember when no one else does.”
“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
“The only way to learn is to live.”
“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at i...
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
“We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.”
“We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to...
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”
“False. Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life an...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
“To define is to limit.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
“Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”
“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do the...
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
“The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts and customs had not, which meant the world hadn't actually changed at all.”
“I don’t know if I’m going to get married, or if I’m going to have children. Or maybe I’ll die before I ...
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang