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#1

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: expectation, hope, life

5639 likes

#2

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6457 likes

#3

“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

292 likes

#4

“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

tags: cutting-for-stone-my-abyssinia

424 likes

#5

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

5097 likes

#6

“Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.”
― Deepak Chopra

tags: contribution, deepak-chopra, humanity, life, people, quote, quotes, strand, unique, uniqueness, web

143 likes

#7

“...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

tags: between-shades-of-gray, quotes, ruta-sepetys, soviet-occupation, stalin, world-war-ii

149 likes

#8

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2145 likes

#9

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

26799 likes

#10

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

2533 likes

#11

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

1398 likes

#12

“i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

tags: cis-women, non-cis-women, strength, women

666 likes

#13

“stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

583 likes

#14

“I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.”
― Rupi Kaur

1020 likes

#15

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

2037 likes

#16

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17087 likes

#17

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6531 likes

#18

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

813 likes

#19

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

4082 likes

#20

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

13683 likes

#21

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, feminist, reading

4155 likes

#22

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: crying, heartfelt, shame, sorrow, tears

2986 likes

#23

“The life I had is gone. There’s no getting it back. I’d rather make a new one. A better one. One where I don’t have to pretend to be weak to survive.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

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