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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: love
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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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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: honesty
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    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris
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    Veronica Rossi
    “She looked up. “A world of nevers under a never sky.”
    She fit in well then, he thought. A girl who never shut up.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
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    Veronica Rossi
    “People can be cruelest to those they love.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
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    Veronica Rossi
    “Fall off your own roof.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
    tags: humor, perry, roar
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    Veronica Rossi
    “The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
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    Veronica Rossi
    “It's hard to follow a person's logic if you don't know how they feel.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
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    Kelly Williams Brown
    “One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?”
    ― kelly williams brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
    tags: adulthood, funny, responsibility, toilet-paper
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    Antonella Gambotto-Burke
    “There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and through hiccoughs, trembling, I would hiss, don’t touch me! as he moved to place a gentle hand on my shoulder. There were times when we seemed locked into our chairs, discrete, the static between us more eloquent than words. But there was never a moment when I doubted Peter’s ability to heal me.”
    ― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
    tags: abuse, anxiety, depression, healing, pain, psychiatrist, psychologist, therapy
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Oliver Burkeman
    “Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway.”
    ― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
    tags: buddhism, motivation, philosophy-of-life, positive-thinking, procrastination, psychology, work
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    Oliver Burkeman
    “A person who has resolved to ‘think positive’ must constantly scan his or her mind for negative thoughts – there’s no other way that the mind could ever gauge its success at the operation – yet that scanning will draw attention to the presence of negative thoughts.”
    ― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
    tags: positivity
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    “She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home.”
    ― Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn
    tags: homesickness, thoughts
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    Christos Tsiolkas
    “Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.”
    ― Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda
    tags: homesickness
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    Erri De Luca
    “When you get homesick, it's not something missing, it's something present, a visit. People and places from far away arrive and keep you company for a while.”
    ― Erri De Luca, God's Mountain
    tags: homesickness
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    Mark Haddon
    “On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: empty, perspective, rain, silence, white-noise
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, November
    tags: heart, rain, sadness, winter
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    Charles Bukowski
    “a good book
    can make an almost
    impossible
    existence,
    liveable

    ( from 'the luck of the word' )”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I
    think that the
    world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
    cats and
    rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
    night.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
    tags: cats, night, rain, storm
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    Charles Bukowski
    “sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going to
    die and you are going to die and the cats are going to die
    but it's still good to stretch out and know you have arms
    and
    feet and a head, hands, all the parts, even eyes to close
    once
    more, it really helps to know these things, to know your
    advantages
    and your limitations, but why do the cats have to die, I
    think that the
    world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
    cats and
    rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
    night.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
    tags: cats, rain, storm
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    Charles Bukowski
    “the people are the biggest
    horror show on earth,
    have been for
    centuries.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
    tags: hell, horror, people
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Don't you go to the movies?"
    "Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
    tags: cinema, movies, popcorn
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I knew exactly what I
    was doing: I was
    doing nothing.
    because I knew there
    was nothing
    to do.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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