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    Sappho
    “their heart grew cold
    they let their wings down”
    ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
    tags: beauty, defeat, giving-in, giving-up, imagery, poetry
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March.

    .........

    I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world...I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

    I wanted to swallow the bitter seeds of forgetfulness...Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.

    I spin and weave and knit my words and visions until a life starts to take shape.

    There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

    I am thawing.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: anorexia, eating-disorders, recovery
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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    Ludwig Bemelmans
    “In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
    Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
    In two straight lines they broke their bread
    And brushed their teeth and went to bed.
    They left the house at half past nine
    In two straight lines in rain or shine-
    The smallest one was Madeline.”
    ― Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline
    tags: family
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: ghosts, haunt
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    Markus Zusak
    “Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: heart, mortality
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    “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
    tags: katsa, monster
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    Erika Johansen
    “Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
    ― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling
    tags: books, decision, hands, judging, people, reading
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    Markus Zusak
    “Even death has a heart.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Donna Tartt
    “Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: anorexia, self-esteem
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    Marie Rutkoski
    “Arin smiled. It was a true smile, which let her know that all the others he had given her were not.”
    ― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
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    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Rick Riordan
    “It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: absence, annabeth-chase, heroes-of-olympus, inspirational, love, percy-jackson, percy-jackson-and-the-olympians, relationship, separation, the-mark-of-athena
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    Emily Brontë
    “Terror made me cruel . . .”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: inspirational
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    E. Lockhart
    “Do not accept an evil you can change.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    Donna Tartt
    “A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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    “How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
    tags: katsa, power, strong, unfair, weak
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    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    Rick Riordan
    “How did you die?"
    "We er....drowned in a bathtub."
    "All three of you?"
    "It was a big bathtub.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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    Markus Zusak
    “The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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