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#1

“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century.

The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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#2

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

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#3

“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

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#4

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: dreams, letters, love, love-at-first-sight, power-of-words, writing

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#5

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: clockwork-angel, sophie-collins

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#6

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: will-herondale

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#7

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: tessa-gray, theresa-gray

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#8

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: devotion, love, love-at-first-sight, true-love

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#9

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: 2013, goodbye, james-carstairs, life, magnus-bane, william-herondale

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#10

“Tess, Tess, Tessa.

Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it – a heart ringing – but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

Why have I written these words in this book? Because of you. You taught me to love this book where I had scorned it. When I read it for the second time, with an open mind and heart, I felt the most complete despair and envy of Sydney Carton. Yes, Sydney, for even if he had no hope that the woman he loved would love him, at least he could tell her of his love. At least he could do something to prove his passion, even if that thing was to die.

I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.

And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart.

You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.

With hope at least,
Will Herondale”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: cassandra-clare, clockwork-prince, tessa-gray, will-herondale, will-s-letter-to-tessa

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#11

“But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: cath, cheshire, hope, impossible, inspirational-quotes

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#12

“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: alice-in-wonderland, beautiful

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#13

“The easiest way to steal something, is for it to be given willingly.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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#14

“Sometimes your heart is the only thing worth listening to.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: heart, love

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#15

“When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken back. What am I?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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#16

“A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: cath, heart, love

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#17

“Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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#18

“To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: heartless, marissa-meyer, raven

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#19

“Over everything, I choose you”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: couple, love, romance, romantic

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#20

“Impossible is my specialty.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: heartless, jest, joker, love, wonderland

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#21

“Perhaps we know each other in the future and you’re only remembering backward.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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#22

“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

tags: heartless, jester, queen-of-hearts, riddle, the-joker

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#23

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

tags: crooked-kingdom, inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker, six-of-crows

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#24

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows

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#25

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#26

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: six-of-crows

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#27

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#28

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: arrow, heart, inej, romance, suli-poverb

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#29

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#30

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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