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#1

“Knowing yourself is life's eternal homework”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

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#2

“We're all stories, in the end.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: amy-pond, doctor-who, eleven, steven-moffat, stories

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“I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

tags: failure, success

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#4

“Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: angel, demons, doctor, doctor-who, girl-in-the-fireplace, madame-du-pompadour, reinette, tolerance, who

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#5

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share

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#6

“Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

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#7

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#8

“We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

tags: inspirational, life

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#9

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers

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#10

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: failure, inspirational, risks, success, taking-risks

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#11

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

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#12

“Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: city-of-heavenly-fire, clary-fray, inspriational, pg-95

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#13

“There is more to living than not dying.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: jem-carstairs

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#14

“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: love, memories, sacrifice, time

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#15

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#16

“Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: clace, clary-fray, herondale, jace, love, shadowhunters

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#17

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

tags: war, ww1

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#18

“Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: family

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#19

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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#20

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: fools, lies, pretending, pretense, truth

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#21

“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

tags: death, life, moving-on

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#22

“Sometimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault. You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

tags: cassie-sullivan, ringer

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#23

“Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.”
― Anonymous

tags: comparison, success

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#24

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

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#25

“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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#26

“Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

tags: paige-mahoney, samantha-shannon, the-mime-order

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#27

“Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

tags: the-bone-season, the-mime-order

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#28

“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

tags: jaxon-hall, the-white-binder, words

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#29

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

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#30

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale

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