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#1

“However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

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#2

“We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

tags: life, trauma

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#3

“To be well in your mind you have first to be free.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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#4

“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. ”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

tags: storytelling

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#5

“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

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#6

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#7

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: happiness

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#8

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#9

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation

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#10

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent

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#11

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational-singing

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#12

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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#13

“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield, laughter

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#14

“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield, life, lying

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#15

“I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: catcher-in-the-rye, holden-caulfield

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#16

“Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: death, flowers

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#18

“You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield

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#19

“the sentence im reading is terrific ...”
― J.D Salinger

tags: holden-caulfield

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#20

“That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: coffee, holden-caulfield

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#21

“I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield

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#22

“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: love

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#23

“I'd be the catcher in the rye and all.”
― J.D. Salinger

tags: the-catcher-in-the-rye

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#24

“I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in."
Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not him though...
"What the hellya reading?"
"Goddamn book."
He shoved my book back with his hand so that he could see the name on it. "Any good?" he said.
"This sentence I'm reading is terrific.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: book, j-d-salinger, the-catcher-in-the-rye

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#25

“I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake — especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#26

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: kafka

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#27

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#28

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

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#29

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

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#30

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

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#31

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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