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    C. JoyBell C.
    “A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: cherishing, faith, heartwarming, hope, inspirational, learning, letting-go, life, life-and-learning, life-and-living, life-lessons, stars, treasure
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    Charles Dickens
    “In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: human, light, moonlight, sadness, spirit
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    N.D. Wilson
    “The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.”
    ― N.D. Wilson, Leepike Ridge
    tags: alive, moonlight
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
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  • #5
    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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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Philip Pullman
    “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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    John Berger
    “When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
    ― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays
    tags: books, reading, stories, story
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    J.K. Rowling
    “There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: stories
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: stories, sylvia-plath
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
    tags: stories
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    Arundhati Roy
    “...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.

    That is their mystery and their magic.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: stories
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    Steven Moffat
    “We're all stories, in the end.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: amy-pond, doctor-who, eleven, steven-moffat, stories
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    Margaret Atwood
    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
    We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: freedom, stories
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  • #16
    “Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: dark, humour, joke, perspective, stories, writing
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen
    tags: fairy-tales, stories
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
    tags: stories, story
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
    tags: stories
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  • #20
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Laura Greenwood
    “Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people, William,”
    ― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing
    tags: dead-people, peer-pressure, tradition, vampires
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    Matt Haig
    “People you love never die. That is what Omai had said, all those years ago. And he was right. They don't die. Not completely. They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters.”
    ― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
    tags: dead-and-gone, dead-people, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, dying-love, keeping-their-spirit-alive, never-forget
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  • #23
    Claudia Gray
    “All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.”
    ― Claudia Gray, Afterlife
    tags: dead-people, friends, funny, random, vic
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    Jen DeLuca
    “The dead are held in such high esteem that we only remember the good things, and we not only forgive their faults but we forget them.”
    ― Jen DeLuca, Well Met
    tags: dead, dead-people, death, death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, death-quotations, death-quotes
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    Paul Ritchey
    “The privilege of the living is to misquote the dead.”
    ― Paul Ritchey
    tags: continue, dead-people, deep, deep-meaning, living, misquote, paul-ritchey, privilege
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    John Green
    “I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: bodies, dead-people, forget, memory, rest-of-my-life
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  • #27
    Alexandre Dumas
    “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering
    1061 likes



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