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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Karen Marie Moning
    “She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.”
    ― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
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    Cassandra Clare
    “We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
    "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: clary-fray, magnus-bane
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    Richelle Mead
    “I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
    tags: dimitri, humor, paranormal-romance, rose, urban-fantasy, vampire, young-adult-novels
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    Melina Marchetta
    “Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
    tags: finnikin-of-the-rock
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    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “I don't go out with strangers," I said.

    "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.”
    ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
    tags: fallen-angels
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    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “You smell good, too,” said Patch

    It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”

    Naked. I know the drill.”
    ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
    tags: hush
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    Melina Marchetta
    “There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, humour
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    Susun S. Weed
    “My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.”
    ― Susun Weed
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    Anthony de Mello
    “Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
    ― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
    tags: awareness, happiness, love
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    Anthony de Mello
    “‎"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.”
    ― Anthony de Mello
    tags: love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You try to be faithful
    And sometimes you're cruel.
    You are mine. Then, you leave.
    Without you, I can't cope.

    And when you take the lead,
    I become your footstep.
    Your absence leaves a void.
    Without you, I can't cope.

    You have disturbed my sleep,
    You have wrecked my image.
    You have set me apart.
    Without you, I can't cope.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you go through a hard period,
    When everything seems to oppose you,
    ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
    NEVER GIVE UP!
    Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The cure for pain is in the pain.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: pain
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I was dead, then alive.
    Weeping, then laughing.

    The power of love came into me,
    and I became fierce like a lion,
    then tender like the evening star.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: love, rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: love
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    C.J. Roberts
    “My name is Kitten and my master is gone. What could possibly be more important?”
    ― CJ Roberts, Seduced in the Dark
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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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    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: loneliness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: alone, differences, emotions, loneliness, people, personality
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    Sylvia Plath
    “God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: grief, loneliness
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, Dry
    tags: loneliness, lonely, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Sylvia Plath
    “How we need another soul to cling to.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: amity, companionship, loneliness
    1952 likes



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