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    Becky Albertalli
    “Sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marie Lu
    “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
    ― Marie Lu, Legend
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I don't like remembering.
    Remembering makes me feel things.
    I don't like to feel things.

    I'm thinking I could spend the rest of my life becoming an expert at forgetting”
    ― Benjamin Alire Saenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Matt Groening
    “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
    ― Matt Groening
    tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary
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    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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    Clifford Irving
    “And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
    ― Clifford Irving, Trial
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
    tags: life
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    Octavio Paz
    “Deserve your dream.”
    ― octavio paz
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    Carl Sandburg
    “I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
    tags: progress
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    Dodie Smith
    “How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: jane-austen
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  • #15
    “Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
    ― Joanna Lumley
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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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    Frida Kahlo
    “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Rohinton Mistry
    “The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
    ― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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  • #19
    “Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
    ― Thea Dorn
    tags: reading
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: feelings, offend, offense, philosopher, philosophers, philosophy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Marissa Meyer
    “When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken back. What am I?”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
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    Victoria Schwab
    “Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
    ― Victoria Schwab, Vicious
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    Kiersten White
    “So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?”
    ― Kiersten White, And I Darken
    tags: huma, lada, power, sacrifice
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Laini Taylor
    “Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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    Laini Taylor
    “I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, stories, storytelling, strange-the-dreamer, young-adult
    739 likes



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