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#1

“Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

tags: abnegation, amity, candor, dauntless, divergent, eurdite, tobias, tobias-and-tris, tobias-eaton, tris

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#2

“That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.'
'Come on,' he says. 'We're going to see Johanna.'
'I like you, too.'
'That's encouraging,' he replies flatly. 'Come on. Oh for God's sake. I'll just carry you.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

tags: tobias

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#3

“I should be writing ...”
― Mur Lafferty

tags: writer-quotes, writers-on-writing, writing-craft, writing-life

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#4

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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#5

“Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.”
― David Nicholls, Us

tags: happy, wedding

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#6

“But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!”
― David Nicholls, Us

tags: music

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#7

“Other people’s sex lives are a little like other people’s holidays: you’re glad that they had fun but you weren’t there and don’t necessarily want to see the photos.”
― David Nicholls, Us

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#8

“There’s a particular grubbiness that comes with travel. You start showered and fresh in clean and comfortable clothes, upbeat and hopeful that this will be like travel in the movies; sunlight flaring on the windows, heads resting on shoulders, laughter and smiles with a lightly jazzy soundtrack. But in reality the grubbiness has set in”
― David Nicholls, Us

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#9

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

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#10

“Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.”
― John Scalzi, Lock In

tags: being-better, being-human, intolerance, mutants

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#11

“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
― Shelby Foote

tags: boredom, perfection, utopia

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#12

“The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

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#13

“The trouble with dying,” she’d told Jeannie once, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.”
― Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread

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#14

“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
― Christian Bauman

tags: learn, read, reading

1871 likes

#15

“The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

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#16

“If you do bad things for reasons you’ve been told are good, does it make you a bad person?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

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#17

“Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

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#18

“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

tags: nature

686 likes

#19

“It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

tags: life, suicide

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#20

“Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

tags: payback, retribution, revenge

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#21

“If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind that the only way to make them into lemonade was to squeeze the hell out of them.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

tags: lemonade, lemons, life

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#22

“When nurses drink, they have a tendency to go all in. They’re like cops that way.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

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#23

“A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

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#24

“The world might indeed be a cursed circle; the snake swallowed its tail and there could be no end, only an eternal ruination and endless devouring.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

tags: dark, gothic, mexico

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#25

“Loyalty to the family is rewarded, and impertinence is punished. Remember that and you shall be very happy.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

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#26

“I have seen the world, and in seeing it I’ve noticed people seem bound to their vices.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

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