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#1

“In the coming days, there's a question I want you to ask yourselves: "If not me, then who?"
If not me, then who will stand for people whose voices aren't being heard?
If not me, then who will stand for the right of all people to lead lives of joy and dignity?
If not me, then who will stand for facts and reason and learning and truth?
If not me, then who will stand for kindness?
If not me, then who will stand for honesty?
If not me, then who will stand for generosity?
If not me, then who will stand for equality and justice?”
― Jeff Zentner, Hope Nation

tags: equality, honesty, hope, justice, kindness, question, truth

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#2

“But I have learned in the last year, more than ever before, that sometimes we have to be loud.”
― Atia Abawi, Hope Nation

tags: hope, loud, raise-your-voice, speaking-up

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#3

“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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#4

“Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

tags: feeling, homosexuality, lgbt, love, pain

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#5

“There's nothing wrong. You are just happy because you met people who see the world differently.”
― Gayle Forman, You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World

tags: different, feeling-different, friends, happiness, happy, people, world

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#6

“Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

tags: fiction

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#7

“I think that's what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don't feel we're allowed to be.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

tags: being-yourself, change, changement, equality, finding-yourself, live-choices, love, self-awareness, self-realization

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#8

“I think that I've been trying for a long time to feel like I am supposed to, instead of what I actually am.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

tags: be-yourself, feelings, supposed-to-be, true-feeling

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#9

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: acceptance, be-yourself, frienship

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#10

“Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here

tags: lie, lies, life-lessons, truth

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#11

“I want people to know me, but if anyone could look inside of me, if they saw that everything I feel is not what it's supposed to be, I don't know what would happen.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

tags: fear, hope, inside, people

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#12

“We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.”
― Nathan Filer

tags: illness, message, selfish, selfishness, whisper, world

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#13

“I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as everyone imagines we could be.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

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#14

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

tags: me, selfishness, time, without-me, world

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#15

“I write fiction"
"What’s fiction?"
"Fiction is an improvement on life.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

tags: fiction, improvement, life, writing

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#16

“Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.”
― Harriet Rubin

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#17

“Well, have you even tried again? You can’t just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: failure, life, life-lesson, mistake, new-world, try-again, world

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#18

“To be, or not to be: that is the question. That’s from Hamlet’s - maybe Shakespeare’s - most famous soliloquy. […] But what if Shakespeare - and Hamlet - were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

tags: hamlet, life, question, shakespeare

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#19

“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore.
But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in you head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: noise, pain, sad-song, song, voices-inside-your-head

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#20

“If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: be-yourself, finding-yourself, own-path, painful, process, truth

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#21

“I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It’s the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I’ve lost myself to - which is that I’ll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

tags: feeling, good-movie, hold-on, life, lose-yourself, movie, reality

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#22

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

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#23

“there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”
― Veronica Roth, The Divergent Series: Complete Collection

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#24

“I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she’d realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn’t matter to her, she matters to the world.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: friends, life, matter, pain, realization, truth, world

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#25

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: fear, love, power, powerful

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#26

“The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

tags: be-yourself, control, family, friends, love, own-nature

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#27

“Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

tags: divergent-series, four, insurgent, tobias-eaton

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#28

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
― Lauren Myracle

tags: funny, home, life

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#29

“I wish I could tell him that we’re going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I’m supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: admit-to-your-mistakes, fear, fears, going-through-pain, going-through-ups-and-downs, help, needing-help, pain

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#30

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

tags: feelings, giving, happiness, selfishness, selflessness

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