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    Margaret Atwood
    “When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: memory, remembrance, the-past
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    Margaret Atwood
    “You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: jealousy
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    Margaret Atwood
    “A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I don't always have to understand the people I love.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Neil Gaiman
    “If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: travel, you
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    Neil Gaiman
    “People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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    Neil Gaiman
    “You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: self-reliance
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “All wisdom ends in paradox.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “The time has to be right and the heart willing.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Gillian Flynn
    “There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
    tags: idealizations, love
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    Bram Stoker
    “There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Bram Stoker
    “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: knowledge, memory
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    Bram Stoker
    “I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: daydream, dracula, hopes, sea
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    Bram Stoker
    “No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Bram Stoker
    “How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Bram Stoker
    “Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Marisha Pessl
    “I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.”
    ― Marisha Pessl, Night Film
    tags: stick-around
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    Marisha Pessl
    “Everyone smiles for a photograph.”
    ― Marisha Pessl, Night Film
    tags: say-cheese
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    Marisha Pessl
    “To be next to her was to have everything.”
    ― Marisha Pessl, Night Film
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “A real diamond is never perfect.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness
    3440 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
    4738 likes



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