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    J.M. Barrie
    “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: childhood-memory
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Let us be elegant or die!”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: femininity
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.
    --Laurie”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: humor
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Arthur Golden
    “Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: dreams
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Memories are worse than bullets.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: lies, truth
    590 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    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
    177170 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44325 likes

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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Susanna Clarke
    “She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    Susanna Clarke
    “A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.”
    ― Susanna Clarke
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: women-s-strength
    1534 likes

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    Erin Morgenstern
    “We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    1239 likes

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  • #25
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17572 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
    12131 likes

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    Ntozake Shange
    “Where there is a woman there is magic.”
    ― Ntozake Shange
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
    16290 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Without fear there cannot be courage.”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: bravery, courage, fear, inspirational
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  • #30
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
    28792 likes



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