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"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
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"I was under the stars, like a fish is under water."
— Shannon Hale

tags: b1000
59 people liked it

"Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

67 people liked it

"We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?"
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

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"Humor is reason gone mad."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, reason
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"There are books by which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
— Charles Dickens

tags: books, writing
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

tags: change
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"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..

"
— Libba Bray

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"I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.
"
— Libba Bray

tags: life
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"We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

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"We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds."
— Libba Bray

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"It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

tags: bray, gemma, libba
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"To those who will see, the world waits."
— Libba Bray

tags: inspirational
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"...reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all. "
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

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"There are no safe choices, Miss Temple. Only other choices."
— Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)

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""Do you ever feel that way?"
"Lonely?"
I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt--'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it"
He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have.
"Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last.
"What?"
"Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another.'"
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

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""Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see. "
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

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"Don't think or judge, just listen."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

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"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back."
— C.S. Lewis (Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold)

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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
— Mark Twain

tags: writing
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"Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky."
— Laini Taylor

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"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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"I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything."
— Dana Reinhardt (How to Build a House)

tags: truth
7 people liked it

"If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

tags: funny
57 people liked it

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

tags: inspirational
389 people liked it

"But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to."
— Alyson Noel (Saving Zoë: A Novel)

tags: thought-provoking
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"When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous."
— Kirsten Miller (Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City)

tags: awesomeness, humor
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"I know I would crumble if I lost you."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

tags: romantic
37 people liked it

"To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe"
— Bruce Chatwin

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"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
— Albert Einstein

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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
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"Happy ending roll credits
pick our way out, over
crushed pieces of popcorn
to emerge
into the glaring light of day"
— Kelly Bingham

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"Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. "
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

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"I do like the world quite a lot."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

tags: inspirational
45 people liked it

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
— Bhudda

3 people liked it

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. "
— Ronald Reagan

tags: candy, character, dessert, food, jellybeans, snacks
75 people liked it

"You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

tags: belief, deceit
48 people liked it

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
— Groucho Marx

tags: classic-insult
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
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"I know. In fact, I am never wrong."
— Gwendolen- The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: theatre
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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