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#1

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― Steven Kloves

tags: movie-quote

#2

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City

tags: books, ideas, stories

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#3

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

tags: life-questions

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#4

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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#5

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#6

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48252 likes

#7

“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

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#8

“Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.”
― Sasha Alsberg a

tags: anti-sexism, book-sacrifice-tag, books, booktuber, reading, sexism

772 likes

#9

“Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: humor, jace-wayland, simon-lewis

13645 likes

#10

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

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#11

“You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

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#12

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

tags: memories

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#13

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

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#14

“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
― Iris Johansen, Countdown

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#15

“Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

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#16

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
― Bruno Schulz

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#17

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer

tags: happiness, life

1049 likes

#18

“Un bon livre, au contraire, ne cherche pas à vous captiver, il vous fait regarder vers le haut (le ciel sans nuage d'été) tout en plongeant au fond de vous-même.”
― Dany Laferrière, L'Art presque perdu de ne rien faire

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#19

“Nous ne faisions rien de mal cet après-midi-là. Et c'est cela à mon avis le seul sens à donner à sa vie: trouver son bonheur sans augmenter la douleur du monde.”
― Dany Laferrière, L'Art presque perdu de ne rien faire

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#20

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

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#21

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

3553 likes

#22

“Never trust a duck.”
― Will Herondale

tags: cassandra-clare, the-infernal-devices, will-herondale, william-herondale

2095 likes

#23

“The light is a funny thing, Grant. We think it shows us what we need to see, but in reality, it blinds us.”
― Adrienne Wilder, In the Absence of Light

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#24

“When death can’t stand to conquer something, you know it must be beautiful.”
― Stevie J. Cole, A Love So Tragic

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#25

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

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#26

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3576 likes

#27

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#28

“It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: truth-lies

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#29

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

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#30

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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