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    Alexandra Bracken
    “Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.”
    ― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
    tags: ruby-daly
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    129101 likes

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  • #5
    Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
    “Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
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  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    ― John Cheever
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    Beth Hahn
    “He imagines the water running in thick curving lines, like the drawings of the tree’s roots, cutting through stone and spilling over the earth. And then he reverses the flow of water, letting his imagination take over, and he sees the water racing north, uphill, towards the Catskills, weaving around towns, beneath bridges, rushing over stones and cutting through the trees, until it lands at the feet of Alice Pearson, who stands on the shore, looking out at the place where the water meets the sky.”
    ― Beth Hahn, The Singing Bone
    tags: imagination, movement, new-york, reservoir, water
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    Mary Downing Hahn
    “You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”
    ― Mary Downing Hahn, The Dead Man in Indian Creek
    tags: adventure, mystery
    140 likes

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    Mary Downing Hahn
    “Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…”
    ― Mary Downing Hahn, The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
    tags: death
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    Mary Downing Hahn
    “I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”
    ― Mary Downing Hahn, Daphne's Book
    49 likes

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  • #12
    Victoria Schwab
    “I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
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    Yeonmi Park
    “I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.”
    ― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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  • #14
    Roy T. Bennett
    “To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: be-yourself, being-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, light, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, shine
    3144 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: dumbledore, philosophy
    3576 likes

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  • #16
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Maybe dogs were one of the secrets of the universe.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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    Stephanie Garber
    “Whatever you've heard about Caraval, it doesn't compare to the reality. It's more than just a game or performance. It's the closest you'll ever find yourself magic in this world.”
    ― stephanie garber, Caraval
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
    58149 likes

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    Tara Westover
    “The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you're having one, it is somehow not obvious to you. I'm fine, you think. So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. I'm not falling apart. I'm just lazy. Why it's better to think yourself lazy than think yourself in distress, I'm not sure. But it was better. More than better: it was vital.”
    ― Tara Westover, Educated
    tags: mental-illness
    657 likes

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    Kiera Cass
    “The best people all have some kind of scar.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The One
    tags: emotional-pain, scars
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    Courtney Summers
    “I stood over her crib and listened to her breathing, watching the rise and fall of her tiny chest. I pressed my palm against it and felt myself through her. She was breathing, alive. And I was too.”
    ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
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    Mary H.K. Choi
    “Trying to get better at the thing you want to be the best at is humiliating.”
    ― Mary H.K. Choi, Permanent Record
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    Ashley Herring Blake
    “Even girls made of stars are captives, bound at the wrists and traded like property. Even girls made of stars aren't asked, aren't believed, aren't considered worth the effort unless they can offer something in return.
    Even girls made of stars buy into those lies sometimes.”
    ― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars
    89 likes



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