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#1

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

#2

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#3

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne

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#4

“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: mary-malone, morality

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#5

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour

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#6

“You’re never more alive than in battle.”
“Never more dead after,” I say.
“Ah, philosophy,” he smiles. “I didn’t know you had it in you.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

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#7

“Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.”

“But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

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#8

“Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'--
'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky.
'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

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#9

“What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it
down.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

tags: messing-up, nature-of-man

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#10

“Cuz that's it -
That's the nasty, nasty secret of war -
When yer winning -
When yer winning, it's effing thrilling -”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

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#11

“A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

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#12

“Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

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#13

“‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

tags: ocean

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#14

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

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#15

“Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--"
"Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."
The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.
"Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: clockwork-angel

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#16

“Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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#17

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#18

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: love

2057 likes

#19

“Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

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#20

“You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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#21

“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: inspiration, on-writing, storytelling

388 likes

#22

“In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year

tags: counseling, encouragement, marriage

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#23

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

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#24

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#25

“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus, L’été

tags: albert-camus, summer, winter

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#26

“Anyone who lives in Boston knows that it’s March that’s the cruelest, holding out a few days of false hope and then gleefully hitting you with the shit.”
― Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

tags: boston, weather

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#27

“It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer”
― Shanna LaFleur

tags: artist, athlete, dance

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