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#1

“Basically, everyone thinks--knows--how sweet I am.

Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.”
― Anna Banks, Of Poseidon

tags: humor, mermaid, poseidon

273 likes

#2

“There’s nothing wrong with your daughter, Mrs. McIntosh. I said we’re not sleeping together. I didn’t say I didn’t want to.”
― Anna Banks, Of Poseidon

138 likes

#3

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

1215 likes

#4

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3795 likes

#5

“My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.”
― Anna Banks, Of Triton

106 likes

#6

“I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.”
― Anna Banks, Of Triton

78 likes

#7

“Did you hear what I said? She's ex-Mob. Her gun probably eats guns like that for breakfast.”
― Anna Banks, Of Triton

tags: lol

48 likes

#8

“You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like that
person matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.”
― Anna Carey, Eve

tags: eve, love

186 likes

#9

“A relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.”
― Anna Carey, Eve

144 likes

#10

“did he know that he worked his way into my dreams, where i missed him even in sleep”
― Anna Carey, Eve

34 likes

#11

“Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present... today.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: anger, grudges, happiness, life, past, simplify, today

68 likes

#12

“A person’s character, I realize, is never black-and-white. There is so much gray.”
― Jessica Warman, Between

41 likes

#13

“I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.”
― Jessica Warman, Between

tags: disappear, found, home, lost

272 likes

#14

“Teenagers, as everyone knows, tend to believe they are immortal.”
― Jessica Warman, Between

19 likes

#15

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

23996 likes

#16

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

tags: fire, love, lust, matches

2037 likes

#17

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

6887 likes

#18

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

23090 likes

#19

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

8342 likes

#20

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld

4208 likes

#21

“I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."
Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Touching Darkness

tags: education, intelligence, obvious, school

76 likes

#22

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

13329 likes

#23

“The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice
what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and
that's always useful.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

13 likes

#24

“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

8 likes

#25

“The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

9 likes

#26

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

2842 likes

#27

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

1606 likes

#28