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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: falling-apart, giving-in
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    Kiera Cass
    “Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The One
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
    ― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
    tags: dream, first-sentence
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
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    “It looked very similar to the screwdriver used by the time-traveling hero of the dragons’ favorite television program.”
    ― Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Eternal
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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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    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
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    Lemony Snicket
    “...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
    tags: crying
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: humor, semantics, suspicion
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: friendship, frodo
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lord-of-the-rings, sam-gamgee
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    Suzanne Collins
    “There are much worse games to play.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: katniss, mockingjay
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Are you, are you coming to the tree?
    Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
    Strange things did happen here.
    No stranger would let it be if we met up
    At midnight in the hanging tree.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: mockingjay
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    Marissa Meyer
    “I don't know. I don't actually remember anything from before the surgery."

    His eyebrows rose, his blue eyes sucking in all the light of the room. "The cybernetic opetation?"

    "No, the sex change."

    The doctor's smile faltered.

    "I'm joking.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
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    Marissa Meyer
    “I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cinder
    tags: cinder, cyborg, girl, humor, marissa-meyer
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    Marissa Meyer
    “If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well."
    "If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Captain?"
    "Yeah?"
    "Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?"
    He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head. "No. I'm pretty sure it was Cinder.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: cinder, cress, fate, lunar-chronicles, thorne
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Captain,” she murmured.
    “I think I’m in love with you.”
    An eyebrow shot up. She counted six beats of his heart before, suddenly, he laughed.
    “Don’t tell me it took you two whole days to realize that. I must be losing my touch.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: cress, thorne
    976 likes



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