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    Cherie Priest
    “And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
    ― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought
    tags: women
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate
    2217 likes

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    D.H. Lawrence
    “We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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    Harper Lee
    “Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
    ― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
    tags: faith, prejudice, reason
    504 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
    ― George Orwell, Why I Write
    tags: writing
    1357 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    449 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
    ― Conrad Joseph
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    Joseph Conrad
    “There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”
    ― Joseph Conrad
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  • #9
    “Sometimes you have to face up to your fears to realize that they aren’t actually real.”
    ― Zoe Sugg, Girl Online
    264 likes

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  • #10
    Ted Hughes
    “Nobody wanted your dance,
    Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
    Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
    Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
    Looking for something to give.”
    ― Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
    tags: dancing, drowning, poetry
    253 likes

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    Salman Rushdie
    “So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.

    The problem’s name is God.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: god, india, religion, rushdie, salman
    144 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
    4185 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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    Eqbal Ahmad
    “We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.”
    ― Eqbal Ahmad, Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire
    tags: extremism, fundamentalism, medieval, modern, politics
    26 likes

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    Frances Hardinge
    “Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
    ― Frances Hardinge
    tags: tea, twitter-quotes
    170 likes

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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
    3497 likes

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    Madame de Sévigné
    “The human heart will never wrinkle.”
    ― Madame de Sévigné, Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2
    tags: wisdom-quote
    977 likes

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    Nelou Keramati
    “And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory”
    ― Nelou Keramati
    tags: paranormal, paranormal-romance, romance, trilogy, urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-paranormal
    52 likes

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    Nelou Keramati
    “Turn your pain into purpose.”
    ― Nelou Keramati
    tags: paranormal-romance, romance, trilogy, urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-paranormal, young-adult-urban-fantasy
    78 likes

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    Pawan Mishra
    “A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”
    ― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
    tags: funny, humor, husband, longing, marriage, marriage-advice, marriage-humor, marriage-issues, peace, relationship, want, wife
    39 likes

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    Nelou Keramati
    “His shrill cries flood the forest like light engulfing a silhouette.”
    ― Nelou Keramati
    tags: mystery, paranormal, paranormal-romance, resonance, suspense, the-fray-theory, the-fray-theory-resonance, thriller, trilogy, urban-fantasy, ya, ya-paranormal, ya-romance, young-adult, young-adult-romance
    58 likes

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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs
    tags: flaws, individuality
    4252 likes

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    Wil Wheaton
    “Things every person should have:

    •A nemesis.
    •An evil twin.
    •A secret headquarters.
    •An escape hatch.
    •A partner in crime.
    •A secret identity.”
    ― Wil Wheaton
    542 likes

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    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
    ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
    1205 likes

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    Ma Jian
    “I feel I have walked onto a stage. The people around me are absorbed in their parts, putting on this great show, but nothing seems real. Every object looks like a prop. Since I have no part I am reduced to the role of a spectator, but there is nowhere to sit, so I have to mingle with the actors on stage. It is a terrible feeling.”
    ― Ma Jian
    tags: life, moods, reflections
    10 likes



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