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#1

“Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling.”
― Luke Taylor

tags: luke-taylor, magic, storytelling

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#2

“And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: coming-of-age, discovery, enlightenment, youth

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#3

“Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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#4

“Once in a while I get an email from someone I have met briefly. "You may not remember me," these emails often begin, the hope to be remembered expressed by the acceptance of having already been forgotten.”
― Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

tags: forgotten, remember

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#5

“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

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#6

“Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.

Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith

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#7

“It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: lois-lowry, the-giver

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#8

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

tags: carpe-diem, hope, new-day, optimism

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#9

“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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#10

“The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

tags: change, memory, past, regret

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#11

“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

But sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.

That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: bravery, choices, courage, sacrifice

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#12

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

tags: influence, life, teaching

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#13

“What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.”
― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses

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#14

“Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: gone-with-the-wind, reconstruction

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#15

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#16

“Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.”
― Aubrey de Grey

tags: future, memory, reflection, self

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#18

“I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: alone, feeling-sad, feeling-small, lonliness, lonliness-quotes, sad, sadness, sadness-loneliness, sadness-quotes, unimportant, unimportant-thing-in-your-life, unloveable, unloved

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#19

“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#20

“I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.”
― Marva Collins

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#21

“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.”
― Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby

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#22

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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#23

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#24

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower

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#25

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

tags: burdens, memory, poems, poetry, remembering

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#26

“His heart exploding paint and colours because he could not speak the words.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

tags: julian-blackthorn

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#27

“We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.”
― robert m drake

tags: happyquotes, hope, inspirational, inspirationalquotes, inspired, instadaily, instaquote, lovequotes, pinquotes, poems, poetry, quote, quoteoftheday, quotes, relationships, rmdrake, sadquotes, sayings, spokenword, tattoo, typewriter, vsco, writer, writing

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#28

“I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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#29

“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

tags: light, moon, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#30

“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage: Poems

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#31

“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
― Stephen King, Misery

tags: art, hurts, memory, misery, novels, persistence, remember, requirements, scars, stephen-king, stories, talent, writers

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