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“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
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Margaret Atwood
tags:
adolescence
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adulthood
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peter-pan-syndrome
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#2
“You can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
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C.S. Lewis
tags:
faith
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knowledge
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#3
“Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.”
―
Rob Lowe,
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
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#4
“I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too.”
―
Barbara Bretton,
Casting Spells
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#5
“If summer had a flavor, it was pink bubble gum.”
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Sarah Jio,
The Violets of March
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#6
“Different is not always a good thing.”
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Christina Gonzalez,
The Red Umbrella
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#7
“I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.”
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Wendy Mass,
Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall
tags:
none
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#8
“She felt like she was in Candy Land, minus the lollipops on the trees.”
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Melissa Senate,
The Secret of Joy
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#9
“Human males are fascinating creatures. No matter how old they get, the little boy never goes away. ”
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Barbara Bretton,
Laced with Magic
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#10
“What good is a quilt if it's unused? The same as a life unused. They're meant to be wrung out and frayed around the edges. That's the way of things. Always has been. Always will be. ”
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Amber Kizer,
Meridian
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#11
“Her purse is like Mary Poppins's bag - it holds way more than should be possible.”
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Tera Lynn Childs,
Oh. My. Gods.
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#12
“I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.”
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Wendy Mass,
Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall
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#13
“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused”
―
Charles Dickens,
A Christmas Carol
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#14
“Love is the greatest act of faith.”
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Amber Kizer,
Meridian
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#15
“Love makes you crazy. Love crawls into your brain and plays games with your neurons. All the things you thought you knew about yourself fly out the window when love flies in.”
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Barbara Bretton,
Laced with Magic
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#16
“He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset”
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Charles Dickens,
A Christmas Carol
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#17
“If I was in a cartoon right now, the caption would read: "Gulp!”
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Luisa Plaja,
Split by a Kiss
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#18
“The real drug, I came to believe, was love.”
―
Joyce Maynard,
Labor Day
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#19
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
―
Charles Dickens,
A Christmas Carol
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#20
“People who don't watch TV movies are so missing out.”
―
Luisa Plaja,
Split by a Kiss
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#21
“He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”
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Stephenie Meyer,
Eclipse
tags:
jacob-black
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romance
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#22
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
―
Charles Dickens,
A Christmas Carol
tags:
humor
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laughter
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#23
“Courtship? Had I said
courtship
? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?”
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Terri Farley,
Seven Tears Into the Sea
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#24
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
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Suzanne Collins,
Catching Fire
tags:
peeta
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#25
“If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.”
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Suzanne Collins,
Gregor the Overlander
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#26
“With a smile, she wondered at how almost everyone could say they had a secret bond with the moon.”
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Lisa Rusczyk,
Sam the Night Person
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#27
“Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...”
―
Gabrielle Zevin
tags:
healing
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wounds
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#28
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
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Gabrielle Zevin
tags:
birth
,
detachment
,
heart
,
heartbreak
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#29
“E-mail is a procrastinator's dream come true.”
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Gayle Trent,
Murder Takes the Cake
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#30
“Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.”
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Sarah Addison Allen,
The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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