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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: hate, self-loathing
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
    "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary, clothes, jace, wounds
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    Cassandra Clare
    “It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: humor, jace-wayland, sarcasm
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: chance, happiness, risk
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: brandy-alexander
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  • #8
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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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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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    “When I've really been in love with someone, it's not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or a certain cuisine. It's more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever.”
    ― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance
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    Lana Del Rey
    “I was always an unusual girl.
    My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
    ― Lana Del Rey
    tags: born-to-die, chameleon, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, life, lyrics, moral-compass, mother, music, ocean, personality, pop, ride, single, song, soul, unusual, wise
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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    Albert Camus
    “After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
    ― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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    Anna Kendrick
    “I realized that modern flirting was essentially just being mean while smiling.”
    ― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody
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    Anna Kendrick
    “Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, don't create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.”
    ― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody
    tags: feminist, funny, humor, sex
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
    Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, acomaf, feyre, rhysand
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: rhysand
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Say it,” I gritted out.
    “The High Lord of the Night Court is your mate.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: fey, feyrhys, feysand, love, mates, rhysand, spoilers, the-suriel
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
    "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
    "Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
    "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
    "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: six-of-crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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