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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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  • #5
    Marilyn Monroe
    “The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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  • #6
    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
    ― Norman Vincent Peale
    tags: inspirational
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  • #7
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #8
    Lynne Ewing
    “God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest.”
    ― Lynne Ewing
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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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  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
    ― Cassandra Clare
    tags: simon
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  • #11
    Horatius
    “Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
    ― Horace, The Odes of Horace
    tags: death, dust, greek, latin, life, shadow
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    Lynne Ewing
    “Daimonds are a girls best friend- they're sharper than knives”
    ― Lynne Ewing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #14
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #15
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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    Emily A. Duncan
    “We're all monsters, Nadya, some of us just hide it better than others.”
    ― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints
    tags: monster-boy
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    Emily A. Duncan
    “You could be exactly what these countries need to stop their fighting. Or you could rip them apart at the seams.”
    ― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints
    tags: nadya-malachiasz
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  • #20
    Lesley Livingston
    “Are you a weapon or a target? Choose!”
    ― Lesley Livingston, The Valiant
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  • #21
    Lesley Livingston
    “You are what you are, no matter what you once were.”
    ― Lesley Livingston, The Valiant
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  • #22
    Erin Summerill
    “Bravery is a choice that is yours to make. Don't let fear steal your will.”
    ― Erin Summerill, Ever the Hunted
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    Erin Summerill
    “...doubt has a way of making quicksand of stable ground.”
    ― Erin Summerill, Ever the Hunted
    tags: doubt, doubting, doubts
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    Erin Summerill
    “All you need is to be a voice. A voice loud enough to start a storm.”
    ― Erin Summerill, Once a King
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

    "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: jem-carstairs, will-herondale
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  • #27
    Cassandra Clare
    “Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: chocolate, monsters
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  • #28
    Cassandra Clare
    “If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: tessa-gray, theresa-gray
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  • #29
    Cassandra Clare
    “Dreams can be dangerous things.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: james-carstairs, jem, jem-carstairs
    852 likes

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  • #30
    Cassandra Clare
    “Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: william-herondale
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