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#1

“I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writers

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#2

“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: memory, reality, return

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#3

“But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?”
― Anne Lamott, Crooked Little Heart

tags: easy

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#4

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secret-keeping, secrets

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#5

“And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

tags: good-and-evil

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#6

“You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life. I would not wish such a love on anyone, man or woman, for it can make your life a paradise, or it can destroy you utterly.”
― Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest

tags: love

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#7

“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows

tags: excitement

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#8

“This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows

tags: death, goodbye

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#9

“And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows

tags: children, hope

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#10

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

tags: life

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#11

“There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.”
― Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest

tags: truth

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#12

“I can't do nothing. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon what I going to get ain't no more than mine.”
― William Faulkner, Collected Stories

tags: fate

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#13

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

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#14

“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: gothic

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#15

“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: inspiration, writing

108 likes

#16

“My, my. A body does get around.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

tags: moving

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#17

“Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

tags: courage, cowardice

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#18

“It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: destiny-chance

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#19

“And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: sarcasm, stupidity

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#20

“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: trust

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#21

“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: reading

288 likes

#22

“Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

tags: in-love, love

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#23

“Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

tags: anxiety, mind, obsession

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#24

“I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me.”
― Anne Lamott, Joe Jones

tags: fear-of-death, giving-up

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#25

“He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.”
― Anne Lamott, Joe Jones

tags: writers

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#26

“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.”
― Anne Lamott, Joe Jones

tags: inner-child

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#27

“I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.”
― Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women

tags: kidnapping

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#28

“I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.”
― Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women

tags: men-and-women, pride

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#29

“His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.”
― Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women

tags: first-impressions, love

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#30

“I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

tags: vaginas

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