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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#2

“Sure I do,” countered Lila cheerfully. “There’s Dull London, Kell London, Creepy London, and Dead London,” she recited, ticking them off on her fingers. “See? I’m a fast learner.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

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#3

“Aren't you afraid of dying?" he asked Lila now.
She looked at him as if it were a strange question. And then she shook her head. "Death comes for everyone," she said simply. "I'm not afraid of dying. But I am afraid of dying here." She swept her hand over the room, the tavern, the city. "I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

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#4

“You look more ready to storm a city than seduce a man.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

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#5

“The thought of someone believing you deserve fewer rights because of who you are is depressing. But then you realize that, by doing what you do every day, you prove to them you are unstoppable. They can spend their time trying to pass laws to take away your rights and silence your voice, but all you have to do is live your lives right in their faces, and it proves you simply cannot be stopped.”
― Amber Ruffin

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#6

“I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: alone, empty, emptyness, life, sad, tired

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#7

“I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn’t. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#8

“I was here. TF.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#9

“The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, future, hope, look-for-the-positive, smile

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#10

“All I know is what I wonder: Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me? There is only one me I’ve ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#11

“I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: quotes-to-live-by

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#12

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#13

“I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing …”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#14

“I am in pieces.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#15

“Is today a good day to die?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: death, first-sentence

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#16

“Before I die, I want to...be the person I’m meant to be and have that be enough.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#17

“Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I’m still here and have a say.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#18

“The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese

I
am
in
pieces.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#19

“You might expect me to say “life,” having just woken up and all, but it’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#20

“If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him last.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places

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#21

“You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: happy, inspirational, sad

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#22

“For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: dead, fearless, free, mind, peace, theodore-finch, weightless

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#23

“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#24

“Is today a good day to die?

Is today the day?
And if not today–when?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: awake, die, finch, suicide, today

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#25

“Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day?"
"What?"
"A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible?"
"I don't know."
"Have you ever had one?"
"No."
"I've never had one either, but I'm looking for it.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: day, inspire, inspired-living, looking, perfect

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#26

“My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I’ve paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I’ve suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#27

“I’m a fuckup. I’m broken, and no one can fix it.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#28

“Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#29

“A string of thoughts run through my head like a song I can't get rid of, over and over in the same order: I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: mental-illness, sad

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#30

“I've always been different, but to me different is normal. i decide on a version of the truth.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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