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    Edward Hirsch
    “I am a tiny seashell
    that has secretly drifted ashore
    and carries the sound of the ocean
    surging through its body.”
    ― Edward Hirsch
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    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    Stephen Vincent Benét
    “There is a wilderness we walk alone
    However well-companioned”
    ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
    tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: spring
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: healing, vulnerability
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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    Omar Khayyám
    “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
    ― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
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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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  • #13
    Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham: You love to figure out
    “Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham:

    "You love to figure out things as much as I do,” Piper said.

    “Like what?” Bill asked.

    “You fix broken stuff,” Piper replied.

    “Repairing a broken toaster or steam iron is far different than unraveling a murder mystery," Bill said.”
    ― Ed Lynskey, The Corpse Wore Gingham
    tags: cozies, cozy, cozy-mysteries, cozy-mystery, mysteries-cozy, whodunit, women-sleuths
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    John Cheever
    “Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing
    1267 likes

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    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
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    John W. Campbell Jr.
    “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
    ― John W. Campbell Jr.
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    Michael Soll
    “I’ll always be limited because I’m me and he’s he. I could put myself in his situation and walk in his shoes, but they’d always be my feet.”
    ― Michael Soll, Scorched
    tags: michael-soll, scorched, shoes, walk-a-mile
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    Michael Soll
    “The more power you have, the less you can truly say. That’s the irony.”
    ― Michael Soll, Scorched
    tags: freedom-of-speech, ironic, michael-soll, power, powerful, scorched
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  • #19
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    Michael Soll
    “When you’re constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.”
    ― Michael Soll, Scorched
    tags: discover-yourself, finding-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, love-yourself, michael-soll, scorched
    40 likes

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    Stephen Amidon
    “Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the end.”
    ― Stephen Amidon
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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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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93521 likes

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    Cherie Priest
    “And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
    ― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought
    tags: women
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    Bram Stoker
    “It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: dracula, laugh, life, misery, van-helsing, world
    206 likes

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    Michael Soll
    “The problem with thick skin is that it leaves you impervious to the sharpest of pins. Everything becomes dull. But without that sense of pain, there cannot be that sense of relief. Ultimately, the thickened skin leaves you numb, incapable of feeling the highs and lows of life. It leaves you rough like a rock and just as inanimate.”
    ― Michael Soll
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons, love, michael-soll, pain, relationships-love, relief, scorched, thick-skin
    54 likes

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  • #27
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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  • #28
    Megan stepping back let her glance switch from Alma to Isabel and return to Alma.
    “Megan stepping back let her glance switch from Alma to Isabel and return to Alma. No doubt about it, thought Megan. Created as much alike as any sisters ever had been, their resemblance started with their matching red-and-white polka dot blouses. Since she was a young girl, she had matched their eye colors to their different personalities.”
    ― Ed Lynskey, Quiet Anchorage
    tags: cats, cozies, cozy, cozy-mysteries, cozy-mystery, humor, mysteries-cozy, romance, whodunit, women-sleuths
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    Michael Soll
    “I want something new. I want something I’ve never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.”
    ― Michael Soll, Scorched
    tags: imagination, inspirational, living-life-to-the-fullest, michael-soll, scorched, spark
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    Dreema and you disagree. She cottons to Richmond, but you can't be weaned off Pelham.
    “Dreema and you disagree. She cottons to Richmond, but you can't be weaned off Pelham. So I offer you a fair middle ground: relocate to northern Virginia. She transfers to the state morgue on Braddock Road, and you get to stay near your old beat.”
    ― Ed Lynskey, The Zinc Zoo
    tags: adventure-fiction, crime-fiction, detective-novel, mystery, private-eye, romance, suspense, thriller
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