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#1

“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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#3

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#4

“They worried that I spent too much time alone, clinging to the notion that socializing was therapeutic. So was electroshock, I reminded them.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#5

“Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words," I muttered.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#6

“If you must fail," he said grandly, "fail spectacularly!”
― Ranson Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#7

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

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#8

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

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#9

“We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#10

“Because we weren’t like other people. We were peculiar.”
“Peculiar how?”
“Oh, all sorts of ways,” he said. “There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#11

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#12

“I don't mean to be rude' I said, 'but what are you people?'
'We're peculiar,' he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. 'Aren't you?;
'I don't know. I don't think so'
'That's a shame.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#13

“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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#14

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#15

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

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#16

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#17

“Sometimes it's better not to look back.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#18

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#19

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#20

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#21

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#22

“Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

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#23

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#24

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

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#25

“Dream Your World. Be Your World. Flaunt Your World.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

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#26

“Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories”
― JRR Tolkien

tags: fairy, form, quotes, spells, stories

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#27

“A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it"
"No...sir"
"I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: inspirational, percy-jackson, restrained, sea

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#28

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: bravery, courage

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#29