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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#2

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#3

“It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again."

"Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

tags: detective, fact, mystery, theory

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#4

“A vida às vezes dá-nos mais do que um pontapé… dá-nos um coice e espera que nos mantenhamos a andar. Todos à nossa volta o esperam. Cobram-nos que sejamos fortes quando tudo o que queremos é poder cair.”
― L. C. Lavado, O Diabo dos Anjos

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#5

“O tempo tem um estranho senso de humor. Não interessa qual o momento, é sempre cedo demais para umas coisas, tarde demais para outras, mas nem por isso tudo deixa de acontecer.”
― L.C. Lavado, O Diabo dos Anjos

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#6

“know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”
― Nora Roberts, Morrigan's Cross

tags: goals, inspirational, proactivity

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#7

“Preciso desta calma, preciso do nada no caos de tudo.”
― Dorothy Koomson

tags: a-praia-das-pétalas-de-rosa, dorothy-koomson

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#8

“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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#9

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

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#10

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

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#11

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: self-determination, soul

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#12

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

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#13

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

tags: being-someone-else, being-someone-else-you-are-not, hating-yourself, hiding, humanity, inspirational, lying, self-acceptance, self-hatred, shame, trying-to-be-like-someone-else

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#14

“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

tags: god, inspirational, reality

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#15

“As mentiras têm vida. Elas vivem. Depois de as contarmos, temos de cuidar delas, de as alimentar, acarinhar, de lhes dar atenção, fazer companhia... dar amor e afeto, talvez, como qualquer outro ser vivos pelo qual somos responsáveis.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

tags: lies

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#16

“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

tags: relationships

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#17

“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

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#18

“It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

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#19

“I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Chocolate Run

tags: love

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#20

“Every second counts”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

tags: life, time

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#21

“My belief in God is personal, I do not need to browbeat anyone into agreeing with me, because I believe what I believe and I try to live by it. My belief in God is about trying to be the best person I can be in this life ...”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

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#22

“I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach

tags: life-changing, life-lessons

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#23

“I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

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#24

“She'd once told me that I was probably the only person on earth who'd be given more than one soapbox in their lifetime because their first one had been worn out.”
― Dorothy Koomson

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#25

“And because he loves me, he tries to understand me. It is my fear that stops me talking to him. Because even if it is irrational and it isn't what he wants to hear, Keith has loved me for so long, he'd find a way to make what I feel work for us both. I would do the same for him. That's what our love is about.”
― Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

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#26

“Se ouviram, sabem que só me resta fazer uma coisa: deitar-me aqui à beira-mar, na minha praia coberta de pétalas de rosa e entregar-me ao meu sono interminável.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach

tags: a-praia-das-pétalas-de-rosa, dorothy-koomsom, pétalas, rosas

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#27

“É o que faz a mente humana, descobre provas para apoiar aquilo em que acreditamos.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach

tags: a-praia-das-pétalas-de-rosa, dorothy-koomson, mente-humana

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#28

“I had no illusions at all that I was beautiful, pretty or even able to attract the right sort of attention from men”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

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#29

“I could grow to like this man, I realized. I could grow to like him a lot.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

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#30

“The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?"
"Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks”
― Veronica Roth Allegiant

tags: allegiant, uriah, veronica-roth

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