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    Sylvia Plath
    “If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
    You leave the same impression
    Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you”
    ― Ellen Hopkins
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “I want the part of you that you refuse to give.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Identical
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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    John Green
    “I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin
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    Charles Bukowski
    “those who escape hell
    however
    never talk about
    it
    and nothing much
    bothers them
    after
    that.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Sarah Dessen
    “It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.”
    ― Sarah Dessen
    tags: this-lullaby
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    Ayn Rand
    “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Dennis Lehane
    “This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
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    Jamie McGuire
    “Her personality was charming to those she loved, and repellent to those she didn't”
    ― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Oblivion
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    Shinji Moon
    “I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know there's nothing but light when I see you.”
    ― Shinji Moon
    tags: lover-mine
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    Jodi Picoult
    “After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
    tags: break, honesty, strength, wall
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    Jodi Picoult
    “I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
    tags: grief, loss
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    Brodi Ashton
    “I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.”
    ― Brodi Ashton, Everneath
    tags: disappearance, dream, left
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours, and what if you decide that you don’t want me? How could you want me like I want you?”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
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    Robyn Schneider
    “Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that’s all. I don’t know if he’s right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.”
    ― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
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    J.K. Rowling
    “He must have known I'd want to leave you."
    "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, friendship, harry-potter, ron-weasley
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  • #23
    “I only know now that the scientists are wrong.

    The world is flat.

    I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: omg-amazing
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    Phar West Nagle
    “To her you're just a play thing; she'll make you out to be a king, then she'll set fire to your throne.”
    ― Phar West Nagle
    tags: love, love-poetry, relationships, sex, succubus
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    Beau Taplin
    “Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.”
    ― Beau Taplin
    tags: going, going-away, handcuffs, heart, hearts, humans, leave, life, living, people, permission, prisons, release, time-to-go
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    Beau Taplin
    “My heart is not captured easily. I am disinterested in small talk, disillusioned with love, and too focused on my dreams and aspirations to lend anybody my attention for long.”
    ― Beau Taplin
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    Brenna Yovanoff
    “The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.”
    ― Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between
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    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
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    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
    tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”
    ― Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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