Books remember all the things you cannot contain.
– Elizabeth McCracken
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- You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets. – Amit Kalantri
- Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours. – Elizabeth McCracken
- Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours. – Elizabeth McCracken
- Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. – Elizabeth McCracken
- Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
- Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma
- Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous – they contain ideas. – Pete Hautman
- I cannot remember you when the rain flows down -I cannot remember youandmy heart begins to drown … – Muse
- You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better. – Richard Rohr
- We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become – James Baldwin
- We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become – James Baldwin
- Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen. – James Baldwin
- Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see…Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive… – Ashok Kallarakkal
- I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. – Neil Gaiman
- We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. – Jeanette Winterson
- It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. – John Ruskin
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
- You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
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- I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. – GK Chesterton
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- This is your last chance to go home, son.- It was the loudest I’d heard him speak.I froze.????, meet jeans. Jeans, please contain ????. – JA Rock
- Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes. – Walt Whitman
- Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. – Ingmar Bergman
- The corridor didn’t seem long enough to contain so much blackness.’Passing Through Peacehaven – Ramsey Campbell
- A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath. – Terry Pratchett
- Before you dismiss any gift as worthless, look again because it may just contain hidden treasure. – Rejoice Denhere
- There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence. – Bangambiki Habyarimana