Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said:


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Unfortunately, it seems that I am eternally trapped in the dark realm of tangled ear-buds.
E. CLAIRE
The world is filled with a bunch of cheaters and bad referees: Life isn't fair but almost nobody eve...
E. CLAIRE
I'm Canadian. Can't you take my word on it? (To Canadian immigration)
LAUREN-E
Don’t cry for me, yet make sure I live on instead/the flesh may be destroyed, but the soul has a l...
E. PALUSZAK
The irony of it all is that, while most people don't want to die, generally, those same people want ...
E. CLAIRE
I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
E. LOCKHART
Beauty comes from the inside, beyond your fair skin.
E. MELLYBERRY
Silence is a protective coating over pain.
E. LOCKHART
It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
E. LOCKHART
I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than fi...
E. LOCKHART
Everyone who works at McDonalds has to do one of those ghost shifts.
LAUREN-E
She's not drunk, she's just not sober.
E. CLAIRE
Lonely like the sun......if anyone gets close to me I burn them
LAURA E
You can want me to do my job. Just don't expect me to.
E. CLAIRE
It's not that I'm lazy. I'm just prone to not working. At all. Ever.
E. CLAIRE
although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ...
E. LOCKHART
He's afraid to confront the issues,
E. HELM
ONCE UPON A time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. He loved each of them dearly. ...
E. LOCKHART
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
E. LOCKHART
He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.
E. LOCKHART
But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I fee...
E. LOCKHART
I love him, but I am not sure I like him.
E. LOCKHART
She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing ...
E. LOCKHART
I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.
E. LOCKHART
He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.
E. LOCKHART
Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.
E. LOCKHART
Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than c...
E. LOCKHART
Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.
E. LOCKHART
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing...
E. LOCKHART
If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.
E. LOCKHART
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
E. LOCKHART
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
E. LOCKHART
She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART
A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far ...
E. LOCKHART
My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summe...
E. LOCKHART
Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bu...
E. LOCKHART
... the God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must...
E. ELLIOT
We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
E. LOCKHART
There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHART
What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to...
E. NESBIT
I see it for what is is, now. It is a house built on ashes. Ashes of the life Granddad shared with G...
E. LOCKHART