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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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    Sarah J. Maas
    “But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
    tags: death, heartbreak, reflective
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    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: reading
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    Art Spiegelman
    “To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
    ― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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    Curtis Sittenfeld
    “I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
    ― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
    tags: anonymity, blending-in
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    Machado de Assis
    “To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
    ― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Eric Carle
    “We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
    ― Eric Carle
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    Maggie Hall
    “The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It’s uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o’clock on a Minnesota December morning.”
    ― Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of Us
    tags: loneliness
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    Wole Soyinka
    “A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
    ― Wole Soyinka
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    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
    tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard
    2412 likes

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    Sarah Waters
    “I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
    ― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
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    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    ― S.E. Hinton
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Charles Dickens
    “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: love
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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  • #23
    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Lee Child
    “I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
    ― Lee Child, 61 Hours
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  • #26
    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
    tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words
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    Warsan Shire
    “two people who were once very close can
    without blame
    or grand betrayal
    become strangers.
    perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
    ― Warsan Shire
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  • #28
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Cassandra Clare
    “We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: dreams, letters, love, love-at-first-sight, power-of-words, writing
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