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"The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was asay, but when people left they always came back.

~pg 63"
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

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"Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them."
— Alice Sebold

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"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
— Alice Sebold

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"You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

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"Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

tags: anne, mary, to
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"The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

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""I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work"
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— Philippa Gregory

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""Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.""
— Philippa Gregory

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"You must look ar her books and see if she is reading any forbidden Writing."
— Philippa Gregory

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"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing."
— Ian McEwan (On Chesil Beach)

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"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended."
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

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"No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed."
— Ian McEwan

tags: knowledge
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"Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?"
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

tags: writing
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"And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you."
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

tags: inexperience, life
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"That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed."
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

tags: good-sense, love
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: better, empathy, life
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"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

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

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
— Anaïs Nin

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"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: inspirational
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"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea
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"Dreams are necessary to life."
— Anaïs Nin

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"I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live."
— Anaïs Nin

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"The secret of joy is the mastery of pain."
— Anaïs Nin

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