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#321

“Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#322

“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#323

“He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#324

“They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#325

“Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#326

“When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

tags: fear

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#327

“She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#328

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

6513 likes

#329

“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

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#330

“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

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#331

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

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#332

“She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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#333

“Sorry," she said. "I have a psychological disorder that prevents me from keeping thoughts inside my head where they belong. ”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil

tags: humor

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#334

“Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”
― Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman

tags: books-reading

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#335

“She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow

tags: angel, beauty, description, devil, loving, strong, stubborn

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#336

“A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.”
― Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman

tags: women-s-strength

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#337

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

tags: contentment, inner-peace

1416 likes

#338

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

3017 likes

#339

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

tags: memories

1497 likes

#340

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
― Erica Jong

tags: change, courage, fear, life

2386 likes

#341

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

tags: weakness

1528 likes

#342

“It is good people who make good places.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming

1732 likes

#343

“Love isn’t roses. It’s those little square caramels and a root beer from the gas station because he knows that’s your favorite snack. It’s watching a musical with you without groaning. It’s handing you your glasses at night because he knows you’re too blind to find your way to the bathroom without them. Love is awkward.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

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#344

“Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

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#345

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading, words

494 likes

#346

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

tags: inspirational, readers, readers-and-writers, reading, reading-books, reasons-for-reading

594 likes

#347

“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”
― Alberto Manguel

tags: books, literature, reading, words

299 likes

#348

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

tags: books, escapism, reading

235 likes

#349

“I wanted to live among books.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

tags: book, books

186 likes

#350

“We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.”
― Alberto Manguel

tags: books, dreams, library, literature, reader, reading

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