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#1

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: integrity

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#2

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: epigram

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#3

“She's pretty in a familiar kind of way that I forget to notice, until someone else notices and I'm reminded.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

tags: beauty, looks, pretty, shallow

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#4

“Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?”
"...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning."
"Well reasoned.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: logic, luna-lovegood, ravenclaw

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#5

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore, strength, unity

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#6

“I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: big, responsibility, worse

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#7

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#8

“She sucks in her breath and lets the flames race along the comforter until they lick her and swallow her whole.”
― James Patterson, Invisible

tags: flames, hole, swallow, swallow-her-whole

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#9

“You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes”
― James Patterson, Invisible

tags: extremes, know-your-extremes, mask

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#10

“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

tags: impulse, poison, strangle

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#11

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

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#12

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: attraction, beauty, popularity

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#13

“As the old saying goes, “Don’t ask for permission to sit on George Clooney’s lap, beg for forgiveness once you do.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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#14

“Gavin de Becker talks about this in his wonderful book The Gift Of Fear. He talks about how the word "no" should be the "end of discussion, not the beginning of a negotiation".”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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#15

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love

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#16

“Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

tags: heartbreak, love, sad

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#17

“Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

tags: character, courage, inspirational

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#18

“And I wanted Jordan, because if he wanted me back it would mean I wasn't ordinary. A guy like him wouldn't settle for that.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

tags: boys, guys, longing, love, ordinary, special, teen-love

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#19

“In the back of my mind I know that this is wrong and I have somewhere I need to be. Like laughing at a joke, then remembering that somebody died. Guilty pleasure.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

tags: guilty-pleasure, joke, well-put

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#20

“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.”
― David Mitchell, Slade House

tags: grief, grief-and-loss, hope-and-despair

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#21

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

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