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  • #1
    “I've squeezed as many bookcases in this tiny space as possible. Being surrounded by books and magazines makes me feel calm. It makes the room seem wrapped in a layer of protection. As if nothing or no one can get to me.”
    ― Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In
    tags: anxiety, book-love, booknerd, books, bookshelf, bookworm, calm, the-dangerous-art-of-blending-in
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    Sally Rooney
    “She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
    ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
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    Sally Rooney
    “It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
    ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
    tags: art, culture, intellectual-snobbery, literature, snobbery
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  • #4
    Sally Rooney
    “Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
    ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
    tags: freedom, oppression
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  • #5
    Laini Taylor
    “He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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  • #6
    Sally Rooney
    “Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
    ― Sally Rooney, Normal People
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  • #7
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We are all someone's monster.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: matthias
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  • #9
    Katherine Arden
    “There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”
    ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
    tags: bear, russia, russian-folklore, the-winter-of-the-witch, vasya
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  • #10
    Katherine Arden
    “She bent forward to breathe into his ear: "Never give me orders."
    "Command me, then," he whispered back. The words went through her like wine.”
    ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
    tags: morozko, vasilisa-petrovna, vasya, winter-king
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  • #11
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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  • #12
    Patrick Ness
    “Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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  • #13
    Tracy Deonn
    “The most important thing you can do in this world, the most necessary thing, is to survive it. You can't do anything for anyone else if you don't take care of yourself first.”
    ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
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  • #14
    Sally Rooney
    “If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
    ― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
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  • #15
    Sally Rooney
    “And we hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing, and love no one.”
    ― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
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    Sally Rooney
    “Presumably, remembered suffering never feels as bad as present suffering, even if it was really a lot worse - we can't remember how much worse it was, because remembering is weaker than experiencing.”
    ― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
    tags: suffering
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  • #17
    Chloe Gong
    “You can't ask me not to love you by keeping me at arm's length. I'll love you anyway.”
    ― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune
    tags: love
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  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Welcome home. Welcome back. We missed you. I missed you more than I should have, more than I wanted to. I went to hell for you. I’d do it again.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent
    tags: love
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  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “His monstrous queen. His gentle ruler.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent
    tags: books
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  • #20
    James Islington
    “The lesser of two evils, or the greater good. Get a good man to utter either of those phrases, and there is no one more eager to begin perpetrating evil.”
    ― James Islington, An Echo of Things to Come
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  • #21
    James Islington
    “For I did not know which was harder to bear: The echo of her passing, or the long silence that followed.”
    ― James Islington, An Echo of Things to Come
    tags: grief, loss
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  • #22
    Pierce Brown
    “In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that’s left is their utility.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Morning Star
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  • #23
    Pierce Brown
    “You know a people have given up when they stop teaching their children.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Morning Star
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  • #24
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: inspirational, motto
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  • #25
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
    "But the Almighty determines what is right!"
    "Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: altruism, belief, ethics, heart, humanism, morality, punishment, religion, retribution, right, wrong
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  • #26
    Brandon Sanderson
    “In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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  • #27
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: kaladin
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  • #28
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
    “Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: hoid, humor, luck, wit
    640 likes



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