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#1

“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

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#2

“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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#3

“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: labels, people

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#4

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#5

“Because paper has more patience than people. ”
― Anne Frank

tags: affirming, inspirational, uplifting

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#6

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#7

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

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#8

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

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#9

“I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

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#10

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#11

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: books, life, writing

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#12

“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”
― Paul Rudnick

tags: laziness, procrastination, writing

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#13

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

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#14

“-What's the good news?
-Pardon?
-You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way.
-There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

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#15

“...facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnDivided

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#16

“Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: sanity

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#17

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#18

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

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#19

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

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#20

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

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#21

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

tags: control, love, strength, weakness

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#22

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

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#23

“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

tags: oversimplification

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#24

“Try not to scream when I break your bones. It bothers me. You can cry if you want; that's fine."
He burst out laughing. I didn't realize that was a funny statement.
"Got it," he said, trying unsuccessful to cover his grin. "Screaming, no. Crying, yes”
― Amy Tintera, Reboot

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#25

“I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

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#26

“If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death

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#27

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility

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#28

“War makes monsters out of men.”
― Patrick Ness

tags: ben, chaos-walking, patrick-ness, the-knife-of-never-letting-go

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#29

“I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

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#30

“One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

tags: hope, inspirational, neal-shusterman, sonia-rheinschild, unsouled, unwind

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