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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: insanity, madness, time
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Woods were ringed with a colour so soft, so subtle that it could scarcely be said to be a colour at all. It was more the idea of a colour - as if the trees were dreaming green dreams or thinking green thoughts.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: spring
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    Susanna Clarke
    “The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: description, screams, simile
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: men, mountains, rocks
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: trust, truth
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    T.E. Lawrence
    “I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars”
    ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
    “It sets a dangerous precedent.”
    “For avoiding pain?”
    “For avoiding life.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: happiness, happy-endings, love
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: nerd, reality
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23582 likes

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    tags: dream
    2464 likes

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  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
    “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
    ― Jean Paul
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  • #18
    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
    tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming
    1732 likes

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  • #19
    Octavio Paz
    “Deserve your dream.”
    ― octavio paz
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    Rebecca Makkai
    “I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
    ― Rebecca Makkai
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    Hervé Le Tellier
    “There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
    ― Hervé Le Tellier
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    Gore Vidal
    “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Don't tell the others," Gansey said.

    "I'm dead," Noah replied, "not stupid.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue
    444 likes

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    Novalis
    “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
    ― Novalis
    tags: healing, poetry
    1638 likes

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  • #25
    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
    tags: interests, personality, values
    1932 likes

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    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes
    3520 likes

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    Colette
    “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
    ― Colette
    tags: animals, companions, friends, pets
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale
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    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love
    3935 likes



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