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    Veronica Roth
    “Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    George R.R. Martin
    “If I look back I am lost.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Do not fall in love with people like me.
    I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
    I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
    ― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
    tags: beautiful, blood, kiss, life, love, mouth, museums, parks
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
    "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, narrator, the-great-gatsby
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    Dita Von Teese
    “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”
    ― Dita Von Teese
    tags: dita-von-teese, peach, world
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him. ”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Popular Girl
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    ― Zadie Smith
    tags: future, grammar, language, past
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  • #14
    “People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.”
    ― Bryan White
    tags: adulthood, childhood
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Kiera Cass
    “America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful.
    "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
    tags: america, foreshadowing, maxon
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: exploration, home, new-beginnings
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: belief-in-self, believe-in-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, life, living, self-awareness, self-belief, self-knowledge, self-love
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  • #19
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: change, mind, nietzsche
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    Deborah Reber
    “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
    ― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
    tags: acceptance, letting-go, love, moving-on
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
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