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    Jamie Ford
    “He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.”
    ― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
    tags: hope
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    Beth Hoffman
    “But there's a blessing in everything if we open our eyes.”
    ― beth hoffman
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder...”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager
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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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  • #5
    Vikram Seth
    “My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?”
    ― Vikram Seth (Author)
    tags: an-equal-music
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    Robert Goolrick
    “Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without the stomach for it, but on and on and on, without relief, without release, without a hand to reach out and touch her heart. Without kindness or comfort. But on.
    Forced into such poverty, imprisoned in such despair, there was only one thing she was sure she could do. She could survive.”
    ― Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife
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  • #7
    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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    Jamie Ford
    “I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.”
    ― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
    tags: chances, missing, past, present, wanting
    264 likes

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    Robert Goolrick
    “She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living, was in fact, her life. The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object. A shell she inhabited. It shocked her then. It shocked her now, like a slap in the face. ”
    ― Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife
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  • #10
    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    ― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
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  • #11
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78308 likes

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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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  • #14
    Geraldine Brooks
    “To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.”
    ― Geraldine Brooks, March
    tags: attitude, insight, mind, reading, tastes
    276 likes

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  • #15
    George Sand
    “Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
    ― George Sand, Letters of George Sand
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  • #16
    Philippa Gregory
    “If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.”
    ― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
    tags: boleyn, england
    496 likes

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  • #17
    Sherry Jones
    “Trying to forge my own destiny had nearly destroyed me, but his love held the power to heal.”
    ― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina
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    Sherry Jones
    “Al-Lah alone decides whether we live or die. The rest is vanity.”
    ― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina
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  • #19
    Sherry Jones
    “...but I realized now that love was more than a feeling. Love was something you did for another person...”
    ― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina
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    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    “Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.”
    ― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart
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  • #21
    Willa Cather
    “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
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  • #22
    Tatiana de Rosnay
    “She bent her chin to her chest. She mumbled something I did not catch. It sounded like, "Shame on us all for not having stopped it.”
    ― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key
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  • #23
    Zadie Smith
    “The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
    ― Zadie Smith, On Beauty
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  • #24
    Zadie Smith
    “Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”
    ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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  • #25
    Zadie Smith
    “This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.”
    ― Zadie Smith, On Beauty
    tags: beauty, love, women-s-strength
    38 likes

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    Chris Bohjalian
    “The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...”
    ― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
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    Chris Bohjalian
    “We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”
    ― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
    tags: life-experience, reality-of-life
    58 likes

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  • #28
    Chris Bohjalian
    “With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.”
    ― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
    tags: age, experience, life-lessons, maturity
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  • #29
    Chris Bohjalian
    “But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.”
    ― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
    tags: memories, reality
    24 likes

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  • #30
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151408 likes



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