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K.L. Penington
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“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
―
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
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#2
“Love is a contradiction.”
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Cassandra Clare,
City of Fallen Angels
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“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
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J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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#4
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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Herman Melville
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#5
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
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Maria Montessori
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#6
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
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William Golding,
Lord of the Flies
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#7
“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
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Jude Deveraux
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#8
“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
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Rick Moody
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#9
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
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Lois McMaster Bujold,
A Civil Campaign
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#10
“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
―
Walker Evans
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#11
“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
―
James Thurber
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#12
“Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Self-Reliance
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#13
“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
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Ellen DeGeneres,
Seriously... I'm Kidding
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#14
“I would shake your hand, but I’m kind of in the middle of killing stuff at the moment.”
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K.L. Penington,
The Apprentice
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#15
“Cause I'd rather spend one glorious lifetime with you, Claire Doyle, than an eternity with anyone else.”
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K.L. Penington,
The Apprentice
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#16
“I've been told I'm an excellent kisser.”
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K.L. Penington,
The Guardians
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#17
“What’s life without a few risks here and there?”
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K.L. Penington,
The Guardians
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#18
“Let the dead stay dead.”
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K.L. Penington,
The Guardians
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#19
“So what you’re really saying is that you were attacked by ninjas.”
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K.L. Penington,
The Secret Society
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#20
“There is no shame in being afraid.”
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K.L. Penington,
The Guardians
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#21
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
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anthony burgess
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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
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Frank Herbert
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