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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “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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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: inspirational-ship-storms
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: authors, challenges, keys, writing
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love is a great beautifier.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: friendship, high-school, love, relationships, sweet, teenage-love
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.’

    ‘I can,’ she said. ‘Life’s a bastard.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: eleanor, eleanor-park, park, rainbow-rowell, swoon, young-adult-contemporary-romance
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: truth
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    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “And I think about all the things we could be
    if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
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    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
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    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
    tags: author, dark, freedom, light, poetry, words, writing
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    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “Burn it! Burn it. This is where the poems are,” I say, thumping a fist against my chest. “Will you burn me? Will you burn me, too?”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
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    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “Maybe, the only thing that has to make sense
    about being somebody's friend
    is that you help them be their best self
    on any given day. That you give them a home
    when they don't want to be in their own.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
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    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them.
    It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.”
    ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
    tags: poet, writing
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    Casey McQuiston
    “Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
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    Casey McQuiston
    “That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
    tags: romance
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    Casey McQuiston
    “You are", he says, "the absolute worst idea I've ever had.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
    tags: love, romance
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    Casey McQuiston
    “History, huh?”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
    tags: love, otp, romance
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    Casey McQuiston
    “Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
    tags: bi, gay, lgbt
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    Pete Wentz
    “We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.”
    ― Pete Wentz
    tags: homophobia, lgbt, vocabulary
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: answers, love, true, universe
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