COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#19): CARS

"Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus."

Françoise Sagan

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#18): FORTUNE COOKIES

"Everybody, even those that don’t like Chinese food, knew that you had to eat the cookie for the fortune to come true. And so he did." 

Justin Swapp, The Magic Shop

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#17): MARILYN MONROE

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#16): SWAMPS

"Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet."

Avey Tare

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#15): CLOCKS

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting." 

Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#14): FOOTPRINTS

"What kind of footsteps will you leave for those who follow you?"

Kathy Bee, Footsteps My Journey: The true story about the beloved poem Footprints In The Sand.

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#13): ELEPHANTS

"If you do not have a memory like an elephant, leave impressions like one." 

Uknown

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#12): COOKIE JARS

"I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever."

 Crystal Woods, Write Like No One is Reading

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#11): STATUE OF LIBERTY

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, “Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.” She’s got a baseball bat and yelling “You want a piece of me?”" 

Robin Williams

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#10): BIG BEN

"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show." 

Samuel Johnson

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#9): HANDCUFFS

"Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs."

Amy Harmon

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#8): PYRAMIDS

"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."

 

Anna Louise Strong

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#7): MOUNTAINS

"It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." 

Sir Edmund Hillary

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#6): SMILEY FACE

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." 

Dr. Seuss

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#5): FLAGS

"[The main road was] now teeming with people carrying torches, pitchforks, and rakes, and one very confused man who apparently had mistaken the mob for a parade and was marching around with a Swedish flag." 

Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#4): SCHOOLS

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed." 

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#3): BALCONIES

"The rose upon my balcony the morning air perfuming,
Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring;
You ask me why her breath is sweet, and why her cheek is blooming,
It is because the sun is out and birds begin to sing."

William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose Upon my Balcony

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#2): FEARTHERS

"A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers." 

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#1): LADDERS

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong." 

Mae West