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    Neil Gaiman
    “How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
    "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
    "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
    "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: dark, humor, mothers
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    Cathy Guisewite
    “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
    ― Cathy Guiswite
    tags: eyes, funny, lemons
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    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
    ― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
    tags: book, books, harm, problems, read, reading
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
    'Cats don't have names,' it said.
    'No?' said Coraline.
    'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: cats, names, self-knowledge
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: inspirational
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald
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    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Only bad books have good endings.
    If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
    ― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
    tags: books
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    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
    ― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
    tags: anime, emotions, funny, humor, manga, provoke, troublesome
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    Neil Gaiman
    “We...we could be friends.'

    We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: cats, friends, sarcasm
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sleep my little baby-oh
    Sleep until you waken
    When you wake you'll see the world
    If I'm not mistaken...

    Kiss a lover
    Dance a measure,
    Find your name
    And buried treasure...

    Face your life
    Its pain,
    Its pleasure,
    Leave no path untaken.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: awakening, choice, dance, identity, individuality, life, love, name, pain, pleasure, sleep, treasure
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    tags: catherynne-m-valente, heart, reading
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: travel, you
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “One ought not to judge her: all children are Heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb high trees and say shocking things and leap so very high grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless At All. September stood very generally in the middle on the day the Green Wind took her, Somewhat Heartless, and Somewhat Grown.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: adventure
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    Lauren Oliver
    “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: before-i-fall, young-adult-fiction
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: desires, fun, want
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    Neil Gaiman
    “You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: change
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: children-s-lit, favorites, humor
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