886 – “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

–Mary Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

861 – “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”

–Captain W____ referring to Peter Pan in J M Barrie’s The Little White Bird

853 – “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

–Narrator in Roald Dahl’s The Witches

850 – “Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody. If I thought there’d be another I’d lose my remaining faith in human nature.”

–Amory Blaine in F Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise

838 – “If it weren’t for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”

–Nicole Krauss

837 – “We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

–Gayle Forman

824 – “I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

–The Lorax in Dr Seuss’ The Lorax

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811 – “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

–Hazel Grace Lancaster in John Green’s The Fault In  Our Stars

804 – “We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.”

–Georges Duhamel

800 – “I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare – there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

–Victor Hugo