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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
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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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
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    Marie Lu
    “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
    ― Marie Lu, Legend
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    Gayle Forman
    “You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.”
    ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
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    Simone Elkeles
    “We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.”
    ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
    tags: actors, pretending
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    “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
    tags: katsa, monster
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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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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    Veronica Roth
    “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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    Euripides
    “Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
    ― Euripides, Medea
    tags: hate, incurable, love, retaliation, revenge, wounds
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: communication, inspirational, philosophy
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: love
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
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    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: paper-towns
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    John Green
    “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: memories
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    John Green
    “It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Joe Klein
    “Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
    ― Joe Klein, Primary Colors
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    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: parenting, role-models
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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