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    “I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me
    tags: destroy-me, juliette
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    “I've never read anything that could speak directly to my bones.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me
    tags: destroy-me, warren
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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  • #4
    Bei Dao
    “In the world I am
    Always a stranger
    I do not understand its language
    It does not understand my silence”
    ― Bei Dao
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: books-reading
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  • #6
    Jorge Amado
    “The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
    ― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela
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  • #7
    David Henry Hwang
    “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
    ― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
    tags: happiness
    2529 likes

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  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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  • #9
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119180 likes

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  • #10
    Paula Danziger
    “When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
    ― Paula Danziger
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo-baggins, dissipation, old-age
    1155 likes

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  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177377 likes

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  • #16
    Edgar Lee Masters
    “To this generation I would say:
    Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
    ― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
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  • #17
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads
    6287 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
    3463 likes

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    Rainbow Rowell
    “I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
    tags: life, love
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  • #20
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell
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  • #21
    Will Shortz
    “As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
    ― Will Shortz
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  • #22
    “I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: beautiful, couples, kiss, love, metaphor, need, ya
    3736 likes

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  • #23
    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love
    5301 likes

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    Maria Montessori
    “Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
    ― Maria Montessori
    tags: imagination
    2272 likes

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    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    ― Eugene Field
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  • #26
    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: change, past, present
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    Michelle Hodkin
    “I’m too selfish to leave you,” I said. Noah pulled back so I could see his smile. “I’m too selfish to let you.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
    tags: mara-dyer, noah-shaw
    628 likes

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  • #28
    Antonin Artaud
    “Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
    ― Antonin Artaud
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  • #29
    Jane Addams
    “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
    ― Jane Addams
    tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society
    1104 likes

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  • #30
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
    21081 likes



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