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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads
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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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  • #3
    “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: writing
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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  • #6
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Lisa Mantchev
    “She's under duress," Peaseblossom said.
    "I don't care if she's under duress, over it, or alongside it," Moth said. "Nothing in this world supersedes cake.”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
    tags: humor
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    Lisa Mantchev
    “Could we wear spandex and blow things up?”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
    tags: fairies, humor, spandex
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  • #9
    Lisa Mantchev
    “What color is pandemonium? It sounds yellow.”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
    tags: bertie
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    Lisa Mantchev
    “Words are like the delicate stitches in the dress you wear, holding the fabric of the garmet together. Without them, the dress and the world are nothing but barren cloth”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Perchance to Dream
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  • #11
    Lisa Mantchev
    “Crazier than a bag full of crazy?”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
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  • #12
    Lisa Mantchev
    “Apologize at once, or feel the wrath of my toothpick!”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Perchance to Dream
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    Lisa Mantchev
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fairy in possesion of a good appetite must be in want of pie.”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Perchance to Dream
    tags: craving, paraphrased
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  • #14
    Lisa Mantchev
    “Our unguarded reactions are the most honest ones.”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, So Silver Bright
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  • #15
    Lisa Mantchev
    “There should be more to love," said the earth, "than 'it did not kill me.' More than 'I survived it.”
    ― Lisa Mantchev, Perchance to Dream
    tags: love
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    Émile Zola
    “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
    ― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise
    tags: boredom, misattributed-vincent-van-gogh, passion
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  • #17
    Edith Wharton
    “Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
    ― Edith Wharton
    tags: tough-broad
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  • #18
    Henry Miller
    “Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Tove Jansson
    “One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
    I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
    I asked her why she was out so early and
    she answered that there were too many books and
    far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”
    ― Tove Jansson
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  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
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  • #25
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: stars-dreams
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  • #26
    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, love
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  • #27
    Vincent van Gogh
    “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: inspirational
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: painting, self-doubt
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  • #29
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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  • #30
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: night-day
    1345 likes



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