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#1

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#2

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

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#3

“You have been my friend," replied Charlotte, "That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

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#4

“Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it" -Scarecrow”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

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#5

“The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda”
― Roald Dahl

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#6

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it." - Beverly Cleary”
― Peter Cavalier

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#7

“Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Your father is right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sing to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#9

“The atomic bomb which we dropped on the people of Hiroshima was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She was, of course, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. She didn't call it an "atomic bomb." She called it "the monster of Frankenstein.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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#10

“I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much that will interest you. These companions," and he laid his hand on some of the books, "have been good friends to me and for some years past, ever since I had the good idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure.”
― Bram Stoker

tags: books, companions, dracula, reading

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#11

“Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: beauty, ben-hanscom, fire, haiku, hair, it, love, love-quotes, stephen-king

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#12

“They'll float," it growled, "they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too-”
― Stephen King, It

tags: float, georgie, it

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#13

“Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: fear, leadership-quotes

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#14

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: banter

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#15

“I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid."

- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532”
― Anne Rice

tags: sci-fi, vampirism

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#16

“You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

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#17

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, loss

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#18

“Freedom to isn't the same as freedom from."
-The Handmaids Tale”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#19

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#20

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#21

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
― Beverly Cleary

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#22

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: procrastination

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#23

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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#24

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

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#25

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: fear, love, power, powerful

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#26

“You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

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#27

“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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#28

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#29

“Every real story is a never ending story.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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#30

“Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

tags: change, entropy, fantasy, taoism

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