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    William Carlos Williams
    “It's a strange courage
    you give me ancient star:
    Shine alone in the sunrise
    toward which you lend no part!”
    ― William Carlos Williams
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    Lisa Lutz
    “Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”
    ― Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again
    tags: adapt, change, philosophy, psychology, truth, wisdom
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    Lisa Lutz
    “I have a weakness for tough guys who read.”
    ― Lisa Lutz, The Spellman Files
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    Lisa Lutz
    “If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever." - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae”
    ― Lisa Lutz, Curse of the Spellmans
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
    "What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
    "What a sick, masochistic lion.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella, edward, love
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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  • #8
    “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
    ― Ed Sullivan
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  • #9
    Edward P. Jones
    “We are all worthy of one another.”
    ― Edward P. Jones, The Known World
    tags: love, worthiness
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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    George Eliot
    “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
    ― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence
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    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: reading
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    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    Michael Chabon
    “There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
    ― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
    tags: life
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  • #23
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    ― Raymond Carver
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    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: nico
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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  • #28
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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  • #29
    “Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
    ― Colm Tóibín
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    Ezra Pound
    “There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books
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  • #31
    Art Spiegelman
    “To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
    ― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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