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    Dodie Smith
    “A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: melancholy, sadness
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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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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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  • #7
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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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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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Garth Stein
    “There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
    tags: honor, inspiration
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    Alice Sebold
    “Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: destiny, dreams, epiphany, re-direction, re-thinking
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    Alice Sebold
    “You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
    ― Alice Sebold
    tags: inspirational, rape, self-responsibility
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: life-death
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  • #14
    “Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”
    ― Linda Howard, After the Night
    tags: romance, sobriquet
    876 likes

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    Jennifer Crusie
    “If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.”
    ― Jennifer Crusie, Faking It
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    Jennifer Crusie
    “Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.”
    ― Jennifer Crusie, Anyone But You
    tags: horizons
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    Mitch Albom
    “All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: profound
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    Mitch Albom
    “Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
    ― Mitch Albom
    tags: death, immortality, love
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    Mitch Albom
    “There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: life
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    Joanne Harris
    “Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”
    ― Joanne Harris
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    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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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
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

    ("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
    tags: deception, devil, existence, reality, ruse, ruses, sleight-of-hand, tricks
    1112 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: gaze, human, stars
    1384 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    Dorothy Parker
    “In youth, it was a way I had,
    To do my best to please.
    And change, with every passing lad
    To suit his theories.

    But now I know the things I know
    And do the things I do,
    And if you do not like me so,
    To hell, my love, with you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth
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    Dorothy Parker
    “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker
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