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#1

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
― Edith Wharton

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#2

“Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.”
― Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things

tags: girl, love, lovers

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#3

“If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

tags: death, lovers, memories

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#4

“I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.”
― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

tags: moments, savor

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#5

“We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.”
― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

tags: guilt, love, regrets, sins

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#6

“Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.”
― Anna Godbersen, Rumors

tags: dangerous, imagination

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#7

“...she considered herself unconventional...”
― Anna Godbersen, Rumors

tags: unconventional, unusual

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#8

“She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

tags: desire, heroine, love, romance

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#9

“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

tags: pride

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#10

“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: books, library

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#11

“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: change, forgiveness

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#12

“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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#13

“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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#14

“It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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#15

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#16

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#17

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#18

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#19

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#20

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#21

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
― Audrey Hepburn

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#22

“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
― Edith Wharton

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#23

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#24

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#25

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#26

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

tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld

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#27

“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

tags: ontology

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#28

“Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

tags: ian-malcolm, jurassic-park, planet

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#29

“That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers

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#30

“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
― Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

tags: life-lessons, life-philosophy, priorities, working

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