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#1

“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

tags: anger, careless, rage

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#2

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

tags: humor, obedience

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#3

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules

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#4

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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#5

“You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: appreciation, difficulties, disobedience, disrespect, humor, knucklehead, love, moms, mother, motherly-love, mothers-day, obedience, rebellion, respect, strength, tolerance, unconditional, unconditional-love

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#6

“Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.”
― Remy de Gourmont

tags: demons, evil, horror, supernatural

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#7

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth

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#8

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#9

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#11

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#12

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#13

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#14

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#15

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#16

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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#17

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: inspirational, poetry

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#18

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

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#19

“Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.”
― Greenhaven Press

tags: fairy-tales, fantasy

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#20

“Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

tags: fairy-tales

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#21

“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: buttercup, garden, heart, hidden-treasure, love, secret, the-princess-bride, walls, william-goldman

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#22

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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#23

“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: children

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#24

“My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: important, people, rich, self-care, truth

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#25

“So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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#26

“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

tags: being, innocence, nostalgia, rebellion, revolt

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#27

“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: fear, rebellion

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#28

“I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but it made sense at the time.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Outside In

tags: humor, outside-in, rebellion

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#29

“So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.”
― Mike Norton

tags: action, brave, bravery, choice, consequence, courage, freedom, rebel, rebellion

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#31

“The only thing we can do is to say ‘Fuck it’ over and over again, really loud, until someone stops us.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: rebellion

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#32

“Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am.”
― Anthony Anaxagorou

tags: life, rebellion, society

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