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#1

“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

tags: khaled-hosseini

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#2

“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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#3

“Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”
― Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom

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#4

“It was a kind love, a selfless love. I was a dreamer, and you were a traveler. We met at the crossroads. I saw love in your smile, and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch, and I was already home.”
― Lang Leav, The Universe of Us (Volume 4)

tags: crossroads, lang-leav, the-universe-of-us

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#5

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

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#6

“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

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#7

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

tags: appreciation, joy-of-life

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#8

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

tags: philosophy, wonder

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#9

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

tags: time

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#10

“life is what you make it. No one can make it for you. You have to grab it and run with it or you’ll sink, and sinking is the easy option. You have to work hard and fight for better.”
― Amanda Prowse, Perfect Daughter

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#11

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

tags: books, decision, hands, judging, people, reading

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#12

“Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

tags: fantasy

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#13

“The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. —Father Tyler’s Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

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#14

“The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.”
― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling

tags: erika-johansen, father-tyler, kelsea-glynn, queen-of-the-tearling, the-queen-of-the-tearling

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#15

“I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

tags: death

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#16

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#17

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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#18

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#19

“I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#20

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#21

“We all wear masks,
some with makeup
some with smiles
some with wives or husbands
cars or clothes
we hide from the world
and from ourselves
we hide from our truths
behind our eyes
running always from our real
but somewhere there
where truth meets courage
we are waiting to be found”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

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#22

“Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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#23

“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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#24

“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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#25

“Reading became my sanctuary,” Belle continued. “I found so much in those books. I found histories that inspired me. Poems that delighted me. Novels that challenged me…” Belle paused, suddenly self-conscious. She looked down at her hands, and in a wistful voice, said, “What I really found, though, was myself.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

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#26

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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#27

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places

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#28

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#29

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, jennifer-niven

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#30

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, happiness, inspiration, life

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