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#1

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#2

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

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#3

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

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#4

“Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and even less practical support.”
― Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

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#5

“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: love

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#6

“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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#7

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#8

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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#9

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

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#10

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

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#11

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

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#12

“When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?”
― Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

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#13

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

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#14

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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#15

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

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