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    Let our scars fall in love.
    “Let our scars fall in love.”
    ― Galway Kinnell
    tags: poetry
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    “Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
    ― Colm Tóibín
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  • #3
    Anita Loos
    “Memory is more indelible than ink.”
    ― Anita Loos
    tags: ink, memory
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  • #4
    Robert K. Massie
    “The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.”
    ― Robert K Massie, Catherine The Great
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    Bodie Thoene
    “Sometime the only way t' keep goin' is t' keep goin'.”
    ― Bodie Thoene, Shiloh Autumn
    tags: enduring, life, persevering
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  • #6
    Robert K. Massie
    “For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied.”
    ― Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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  • #7
    C.S. Lewis
    “The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
    tags: curiosity
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  • #8
    L.M. Montgomery
    “After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans
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  • #9
    “When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
    tags: hope
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  • #10
    “It's the little mistakes that lead to big mistakes.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
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  • #11
    “That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
    tags: missing-someone
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  • #12
    “If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
    tags: drinking, hector-ricardo, pittacus-lore, the-power-of-six
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  • #13
    Ayn Rand
    “Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Anthem
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
    tags: heartless, jester, queen-of-hearts, riddle, the-joker
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    Marissa Meyer
    “These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,' he said, vanishing up to his neck. 'They happen only in nightmares.'
    His head spiralled and he was gone.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, chesire-cat, heartless, nightmares
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Mind my words, Cheshire, I will have you banished from this kingdom if you tempt me."
    "An empty threat from an empty girl."
    She rounded on him, teeth flashing. "I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow on to you."
    "There was a time" – Cheshire yawned – "when you overflowed with whimsy and icing sugar. I liked that Catherine better.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
    tags: catherine-pinkerton, cheshire, heartless, revenge
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  • #17
    J.M. Barrie
    “.. he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying 'to die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: inspirational, j-m-barrie, peter-pan
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    Chinua Achebe
    “Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”
    ― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
    tags: africa, conversation, nigeria
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    Chinua Achebe
    “He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
    ― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
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  • #20
    “Loving yourself is the most fulfilling and beautiful love that life has to offer.
    Unfortunately, we're all looking to love someone else..
    we're all looking to be loved by someone else, first.”
    ― Reyna Mays, I Love My Love
    tags: i-love-my-love, reyna-mays, self-love, self-love-quotes
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    Shannon Hale
    “But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?”
    ― Shannon Hale, Midnight in Austenland
    tags: books, characters, plot, reading-books
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    Dodie Smith
    “But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: characters, jane-austen, marriage
    54 likes

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  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “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
    Jonathan Swift
    “The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
    tags: idolatry, time
    74 likes

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    Marissa Meyer
    “It’s not all black and white, good and bad. Peoples actions...their motives...there are” - he circled his hands in the air - “gray areas.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Archenemies
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  • #26
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: imagination, l-m-montgomery
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  • #27
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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  • #28
    Yeonmi Park
    “I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.”
    ― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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  • #29
    “The ultimate goal of all personal and national authority is freedom”
    ― Myles Munroe, The Burden Of Freedom
    tags: freedom, nationalism, personal-development, self-help
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  • #30
    “Deliverance is not the same as freedom. Deliverance is release from the oppressor, but freedom is deliverance from oppression.”
    ― Myles Munroe, The Burden Of Freedom
    tags: deliverance, freedom, oppression
    1 likes



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