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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Kellyn Roth
    “I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.”
    ― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret
    tags: emotions-love, historical-fiction, kellyn-roth, mystery, novel, romance, series, the-chronicles-of-alice-and-ivy, the-dressmaker-s-secret, victorian-era, victorian-mystery
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #6
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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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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    Eoin Colfer
    “Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Airman
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    H.L. Burke
    “Forget? No.” Conner frowned. “It has been decades, and I still remember every detail about her: her smell, her touch, the way her voice hummed in my ears. Why would I want to forget any of that? Those memories are my treasures.”
    ― H.L. Burke, Dragon's Rival
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    H.L. Burke
    “as a free woman, I retain the right to be ridiculous whenever I wish.”
    ― H.L. Burke, Dragon's Curse
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    “As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well, except for that fact that boats are not generally round, orange and on fire. Hmm. Come to think of it, in no way whatsoever did the sun, in this instance, resemble a leaky boat. My apologies. That was a dreadful attempt at simile. Please allow me to try again.
    As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a self-luminous, gaseous sphere comprised mainly of of hydrogen and helium.”
    ― Cuthbert Soup, A Whole Nother Story
    tags: boat, dusk, funny, simile, sink, sun, sunset
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  • #13
    “Some quick advice for success in life: Don't be afraid, be amazing.”
    ― Cuthbert Soup, A Whole Nother Story
    tags: inspirational
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  • #14
    “When Danger Lurks and your heart is racing, don't be afraid be amazing”
    ― Cuthbert Soup, A Whole Nother Story
    tags: inspirational
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    Maryrose Wood
    “All books are judged by their covers until they are read.”
    ― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling
    tags: judgement
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    Maryrose Wood
    “If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.”
    ― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling
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    Kellyn Roth
    “Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”

    “No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!”
    ― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret
    tags: adventure, children, ghosts, historical-fiction, humor, mystery, stable-boy, the-dressmaker-s-secret
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    Kellyn Roth
    “If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.”
    ― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret
    tags: historical-fiction, mystery, noah-s-flood, novel, talkative, the-chronicles-of-alice-and-ivy, the-dressmaker-s-secret
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    Kellyn Roth
    “Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.”
    ― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret
    tags: historical-fiction, historical-romance, kellyn-roth, novel, reading, romance, romance-novels, the-dressmaker-s-secret
    14 likes

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  • #20
    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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    Gore Vidal
    “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
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    Kellyn Roth
    “She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.”
    ― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret
    tags: alice, christian, christianity, historical, perfection
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    Kellyn Roth
    “[A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.”
    ― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret
    tags: historical-fiction-orphans, hope, love, love-story, romance, secret, the-dressmaker-s-secret
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