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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: insightful
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    Andrew Davidson
    “Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”
    ― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
    tags: accident, love, unsuspecting
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    Andrew Davidson
    “You are mine,I am yours; you may be sure of this. You've been locked inside my heart, the key has been thrown away; within it, you must always stay. ”
    ― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
    tags: love
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    Naomi Alderman
    “One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
    And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
    That is the only answer there ever is.”
    ― Naomi Alderman, The Power
    tags: power
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
    Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: life, nature, philosophy
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: death, forget, life, vonnegut
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
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    Wally Lamb
    “Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
    ― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone
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    Wally Lamb
    “This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.”
    ― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone
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    Wally Lamb
    “It is the firstborn’s burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.”
    ― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
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    Toni Morrison
    “When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.'
    'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Sula
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Toni Morrison
    “You your best thing, Sethe. You are.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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    Emily Brontë
    “They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: friendship, love
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    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    ― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights
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    Emily Brontë
    “I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: dreams
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    Emily Brontë
    “Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: crying, dream, near-death-experience
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: adoration, fidelity, love
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    Anne Brontë
    “Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”
    ― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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    Sylvia Plath
    “What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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