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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: storytelling
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
    tags: eli, failure
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an hour
    or two.
    This is your fairy.
    It ain’t perfect and it ain’t honey sweet with roses on the bed.
    It’s real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love.
    Don’t throw it away searching for someone else’s love. Don’t be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go.
    Be someone’s someone for someone.
    Be that someone for him.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson
    tags: easy, fairy, hardship, heartbreak, look, love, love-poem, love-quotes, protect, shelter, someone, stay, storm, true-love, trust, trusting, ugly
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: asylum, believe-in-yourself, calm, calmness, destroyer, dream, dreams, escape, food-for-thought, fright, hideout, journey, michael-bassey-johnson, patience, perfect, protect, protection, rain, refuge, regret, responsibility, running-away, scary, shade, shelter, stay-calm, storm, trembling, umbrella, wrong
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  • #10
    “I felt it shelter to speak to you. -Emily Dickinson”
    ― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
    tags: hygge, shelter, speak
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    José N. Harris
    “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
    ― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
    tags: grief, grieving, hope, loss, love, pain, sadness, strength, tears
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    John Green
    “The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: grief, loss, memory
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: loneliness, loss, yearning
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    Mitch Albom
    “Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
    ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
    tags: loss
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    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: absence, loss
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    Cassandra Clare
    “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: grief, healing, magnus-bane, time, will-herondale
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    Anne Lamott
    “You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: grief, loss, recovery
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    Lois Lowry
    “To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before he started out made him yearn to come back home.”
    ― Lois Lowry, Messenger
    tags: coming-home, hope, kiss, love
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    Roger A. Caras
    “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
    ― Roger Caras
    tags: dogs, life
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    Catherine Ryan Hyde
    “What good were the advance misgivings”
    ― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe
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    Catherine Ryan Hyde
    “Even if this was the only thing I ever did in my whole life, it would be worth having a life just to do this.”
    ― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe
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    Catherine Ryan Hyde
    “Well, the closer you get to heaven,” Chloe says, “the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real you don’t need to breathe anymore.”
    ― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe
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    Catherine Ryan Hyde
    “Nobody said we would get out unscarred, I guess. Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.”
    ― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe
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    Elizabeth Strout
    “You couldn’t make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn’t go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.”
    ― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
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    Elizabeth Strout
    “People like to think the younger generation’s job is to steer the world to hell. But it’s never true, is it? They’re hopeful and good—and that’s how it should be.”
    ― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
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    Elizabeth Strout
    “Oh,” said Louise, laughing softly. “You came here for a nice dose of schadenfreude, and it didn’t work.” She sang, “Saaaaw-ry.”
    ― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
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    Elizabeth Strout
    “She almost hated him then. Her life had once been crazy and hectic, too. You just wait, she thought. Everyone thinks they know everything, and no one knows a damn thing.”
    ― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
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  • #28
    Vera Nazarian
    “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

    At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: bond, communication, connecting, connection, hands, holding-hands, journey, reaching-out, together, togetherness, touch, touching
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