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    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Paul Klee
    “One eye sees, the other feels.”
    ― Paul Klee
    tags: art
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon
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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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    Colleen Houck
    “You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.”
    ― Colleen Houck
    tags: love, romance
    774 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need
    2318 likes

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  • #9
    “What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina
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    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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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
    26910 likes

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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
    23998 likes

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    John Green
    “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books
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    John Green
    “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: wise
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    Jacques Derrida
    “To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
    ― Jacques Derrida
    tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility
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    S.E. Hinton
    “...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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    Carrie Jones
    “I give a little wave back because it's more mature then giving him the finger.”
    ― Carrie Jones, Endure
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151602 likes

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  • #21
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
    6891 likes

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    Leonora Carrington
    “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
    ― Leonora Carrington
    tags: dawn, light, silence
    1926 likes

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    Kiera Cass
    “This isn’t happily ever after.
    It’s so much more than that.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The One
    tags: happily-ever-after, happy-end, princess-bride
    1072 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
    5140 likes

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    Amie Kaufman
    “I know a thousand different smiles, each with its own nuanced shade of meaning, but I don't know how to reach the few feet away to touch this person next to me. I don't know how to talk to him. Not when it's real.”
    ― Amie Kaufman Meagan Spooner, These Broken Stars
    tags: smiles
    80 likes

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    Abigail Haas
    “Wouldn't we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?”
    ― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls
    376 likes

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    Abigail Haas
    “Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history.”
    ― Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls
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  • #28
    “Peter: "What is it with girls and rain?"

    Lara Jean: "I don't know . . . I guess maybe because everything feels more dramatic in the rain"

    Peter: "Did anything actually happen with you two, or were you just standing out in the rain picking up soccer balls?”
    ― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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    Cassandra Clare
    “These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
    tags: emma-carstairs, julian-blackthorn, lady-midnight, love
    866 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
    35639 likes



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