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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “What do you eat?"
    "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
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    Cassandra Clare
    “You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

    "There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: ferret
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: chocolate, monsters
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

    "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: jem-carstairs, will-herondale
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
    tags: eating-disorder, self-image
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher
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    C.S. Pacat
    “Laurent could inspire homicidal tendencies simply by breathing.”
    ― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince
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    C.S. Pacat
    “Is there anyone at this court who isn't my enemy?"
    "Not if I can help it," Laurent said.”
    ― freece, Captive Prince
    tags: m-m-romance, political-intrigue
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  • #11
    “I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”
    ― Melissa Cox
    tags: homesick
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    Euripides
    “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy
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    Izumi Shikibu
    “Even if I now saw you
    only once,
    I would long for you
    through worlds,
    worlds.”
    ― Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
    tags: longing, love, rejection
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    Yukio Mishima
    “What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
    tags: knowledge, stillness, transformation
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    Yukio Mishima
    “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
    ― Yukio Mishima
    tags: beauty, cruelty, love
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    Yukio Mishima
    “Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
    tags: sense-of-wonder
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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    Christopher Paolini
    “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: nature, ocean
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    Werner Herzog
    “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “My soul is full of longing
    for the secret of the sea,
    and the heart of the great ocean
    sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: sea
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Lang Leav
    “What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude.
    It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance.

    What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy.
    It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.

    What was it like to lose him? Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:

    It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me—said all at once.”
    ― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
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    Criss Jami
    “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: brain, cognition, compassion, control, creative, creative-genius, creativity, disorder, driving, genius, illness, intelligence, knowledge, mental, mental-illness, pain, psychopath, schizophrenia, self-control, sorrow, sympathy, understanding
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    Richard Siken
    “Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t, they’ll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.”
    ― Richard Siken
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    Marie Curie
    “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: perseverence
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: ama, jmp, love
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “No art is possible without a dance with death.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: slaughter-house-five
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    Richard Siken
    “How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
    ― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
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    Richard Siken
    “Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”
    ― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
    tags: the-worm-king-s-lullaby
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    “As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.”
    ― John Aubrey, Brief Lives
    tags: beauty, death, life
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