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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: change, past, present
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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    Rick Warren
    “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
    ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
    tags: change, growth, inspirational, learning-from-mistakes, past
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    Djuna Barnes
    “The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
    ― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
    tags: pain
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    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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    Khaled Hosseini
    “l’amore era un errore pericoloso e la sua complice, la speranza, un’illusione insidiosa. E”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, Mille splendidi soli
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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    Alice Dalgliesh
    “What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
    ― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil
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    Nora Roberts
    “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
    ― Nora Roberts, Vision in White
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    Anne Enright
    “I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
    ― Anne Enright, The Gathering
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I miss you', he admitted.
    'I'm here', she said.
    'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier then.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Jacob Nordby
    “Blessed are the weird people:
    poets, misfits, writers
    mystics, painters, troubadours
    for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
    ― Jacob Nordby, Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now
    tags: art, creative, inspirational, poets, writers, writing-life
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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
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: answers, love, true, universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary, jace, sarcasm
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    Ariana Franklin
    “She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.”
    ― Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death
    tags: love-quality-admiration
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #26
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
    tags: romeo-and-juliet
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: pain, storm, summer
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: boys, rain, summer
    2050 likes



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