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    Veronica Roth
    “You won’t shoot me."

    "People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: female-characters, female-empowerment, feminism, strong-women
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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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  • #3
    “SUNDAY

    The day..I planned a lot but actually do nothing.”
    ― Lovely Goyal, I Love the Way You Love Me
    tags: nothing, planning, sunday
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    Diana Rose Morcilla
    “Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! Don't wait for another year older for you to learn something new. JUST DO IT. (You listen to Nike!)”
    ― Happy Positivity
    tags: do-it, inspiration, just-do-it, learn, learn-now, listen, make-it-happen, never-too-late, never-too-old, nike, start-today, wisdom, words-to-live-by, young, young-adult
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    Nora Roberts
    “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: life, magic, music, stars
    1309 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible. ”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: comtemplation, magic
    138 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127727 likes

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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
    11100 likes

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    Ovid
    “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: activism, change, inspirational, perseverance
    1083 likes

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    Dave Barry
    “It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: coffee, espresso, peets, starbucks
    629 likes

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  • #11
    Justina Chen
    “Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”
    ― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful
    tags: coffee
    274 likes

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    Rachel Caine
    “Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”
    ― Rachel Caine, Glass Houses
    tags: funny, morganvillevampires
    2410 likes

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    Yogi Berra
    “Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
    ― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
    tags: funny
    3003 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: boggs, finnick, funny, humour, hunger-games, katniss, mockingjay, odair, suzanne-collins, witty
    9285 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. ”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: fire, meanings, words
    59 likes

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    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: books, reading
    4666 likes

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    Lisa Mantchev
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
    tags: destiny, stars
    259 likes

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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
    26831 likes

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    Stephanie Perkins
    “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, love, relationships, touching
    7280 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
    19818 likes

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    Edmund Spenser
    “For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
    ― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
    1308 likes

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  • #22
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    136076 likes



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