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Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Firefly Lane
“Don't let the man bring you down.”
Maya Angelou book The Heart of a Woman
Source: The Heart of a Woman
“If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.”
Simon R. Green (1955) British writer
Source: Ghostworld
“Don't let the hand you hold
hold you down.”
Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) Puerto Rican politician
Source: El Mar y Tu: Otros Poemas
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Yertle the Turtle (1958)
Source: Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz
“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”
Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller
Source: The Storyteller
“You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.”
Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book In the Forests of the Night
Source: In the Forests of the Night
“Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Source: The Last Song
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The zipper opened all the way down our spines.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides
Source: The Virgin Suicides
Katherine Hannigan (1962) American artist and novelist
Source: Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: How to Talk to a Widower
“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”
Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw
Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Terry Brooks book The Elf Queen of Shannara
The Elf Queen Of Shannara
Source: The Elf Queen of Shannara
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Bumped
“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”
John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman
Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman
“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Winston Graham (1908–2003) British writer
Source: Warleggan
Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur
Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)
“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
Jackie Collins (1937–2015) British-American novelist and writer
