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    Ransom Riggs
    “When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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  • #8
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Temple
    tags: cthulu, madness
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany
    tags: cats, cynic, existence, suicide
    671 likes

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  • #12
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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  • #13
    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
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    Ellen Goodman
    “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
    ― Ellen Goodman
    tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love
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    Daniel Clowes
    “He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
    ― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World
    tags: boy, cool, girl, successful, try
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    Rebecca Makkai
    “I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
    ― Rebecca Makkai
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  • #17
    John Green
    “It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: memories
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  • #19
    E. Lockhart
    “The universe was good because he was in it.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    E. Lockhart
    “We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    Juan Rulfo
    “Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
    ― Juan Rulfo
    tags: memory-loss, mortality
    996 likes

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  • #22
    Douglas Preston
    “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
    ― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence
    tags: evil, monster
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  • #23
    “There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
    ― Robert Crais
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    Helene Wecker
    “Enormous. Cold. It stretched on forever, in every direction. If I hadn't know otherwise, I would've thought that the whole world was ocean.”
    ― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
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    Helene Wecker
    “On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops.”
    ― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
    tags: fairytale, fantasy, magic
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    Helene Wecker
    “If the act of love is so dangerous, why do people risk so much for it?”
    ― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135496 likes



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