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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Sometimes a mistake isn't a what. It's a who.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “What just happened?"
    "Your father invited the former love of your life in for pie."
    "Yeah, that's what I thought.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon
    tags: fear, life-lessons
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant
    tags: inspirational, wisdom, writing
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken
    tags: fairytale, love
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school.
    “They said that about all the great visionaries.”
    “You know who else they said it about?” Angela demanded. “All the actual crazy people.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Put the jerk in the south wing, you won't see him for weeks at a time. Or lock him in the attic. The law will not be on your side, but literary precedent will.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken
    tags: bronte
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “I can try to wheedle information out of people," Holly offered. "For which I'll need a lower-cut top.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken
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  • #10
    Seanan McGuire
    “I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation
    tags: cats, tybalt
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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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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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    John Green
    “because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
    ― John Green
    tags: nerdfighters
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    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

    It did not end well.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Laini Taylor
    “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: hope, hopelessness, magic
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    Laini Taylor
    “There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
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  • #22
    Isaac Marion
    “I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
    tags: metaphor, punctuation
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  • #23
    Maureen Johnson
    “Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.”
    ― Maureen Johnson
    tags: on-writing
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    Holly Black
    “Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”
    ― Holly Black, White Cat
    tags: clever, con, devil, lie, sexy, wit
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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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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  • #28
    Sarah Ockler
    “Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.”
    ― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
    tags: inspirational, metamorphosis
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  • #29
    Libba Bray
    “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: change
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    Libba Bray
    “People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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