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Rebecca Solnit
“[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.”
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Søren Kierkegaard
“All distinctions between the many different kinds of love are essentially abolished by Christianity.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

Nicola Yoon
“It's hard to come for someplace or someone you're not proud of.”
Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

Bob Goff
“Could God speak to me audibly if He wanted to? You bet, and I hope He does sometime; I'll let you know. Probably in a book called 'God Talked to Me'. Until then, it seems that what God does most the time when He has something to say is this...He doesn't pass us messages, instead He passes us each other.”
Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

KaraLynne Mackrory
“Thank you Mr. Carroll. You will have to excuse my cousin; he seems to have lost his mind along with his manners.”
KaraLynne Mackrory, Haunting Mr. Darcy: A Spirited Courtship

Leo Tolstoy
“Ninguém está satisfeito com os bens que possui, mas todos estão satisfeitos com a inteligência que têm.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Agatha Christie
“She looked, Inspector Curry reflected, exactly as the relict of a canon of the Established Church should look—which was almost odd, because so few people ever did look like what they really were.

Even the tight line of her lips had an ascetic ecclesiastical flavour. She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.”
Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

Bernhard Schlink
“I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it’s too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as “too lateâ€�? Is there only “late,â€� and is “lateâ€� always better than “neverâ€�? I don’t know.”
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

Bernhard Schlink
“Goethe’s poems are like tiny paintings in beautiful framesâ€� or “Lenz must write on a typewriter.”
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

Leo Tolstoy
“Todas as mulheres são mais materialistas do que os homens. Nós fazemos do amor algo enorme, mas elas sempre se mantém ‘terre-à-terreâ€�.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Anthony Ray Hinton
“I wanted him to believe that if we had books on the row, it would keep the inmates quiet. But really I knew that it would set them free. If the guys had books, they could travel the world. They would get smarter and freer.”
Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice