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#2

“I didn't create the system- I was born into it”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

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#3

“Everything always seems sweeter in the minutes before darkness descends.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

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#5

“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: sentiment-and-reason

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#6

“... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: comfort

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#7

“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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#8

“If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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#9

“You should always pay attention to your instincts.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: instinct

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#10

“A good conscience makes a sound sleeper”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: logical-thinking

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#11

“Three dark queens
Are born in a glen,
Sweet little triplets
Will never be friends

Three dark sisters
All fair to be seen,
Two to devour
And one to be Queen”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

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#12

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: reminding

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#13

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

13883 likes

#14

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: becoming-jane, flirting, sex

1427 likes

#15

“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#16

“in a boat floating down a river of pink lemonade!”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker: The Original Holiday Classic

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#17

“Not sure there is such a thing as a minor miracle.”
― Gayle Forman, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

tags: 194, miracle

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#18

“He was the kind of beautiful that got under your skin.”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

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#19

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#20

“I believe the "present" matters - not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms - a false perspective.”
― Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas

tags: inspirational

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#21

“It seems sometimes, sir, as though the past isn't the past”
― Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas

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#22

“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: readers

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#23

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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#24

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101572 likes

#25

“History, huh?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

tags: love, otp, romance

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#26

“RULE #1: Don't get caught.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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#27

“On a chain around his neck, always hidden from view, he's worn the key to that house since the day he left for DC.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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#28

“Everything is a story, never finished.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

tags: everything-quote

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#29

“I think it's amazing," Nora says. "Sworn enemies forced to make peace to settle tensions between their countries? There's something totally Shakespearean about it.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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#30

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau had said. 'Live the life you've imagined.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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#31

“greatness means being true to yourself.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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#32

“Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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