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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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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
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: classics
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    Jane Austen
    “From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: antipathy
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    Christopher Moore
    “If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it.
    If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil.
    If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape.
    If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions.
    All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not.
    May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them.
    May you find perfection, and know it by name.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
    tags: lamb
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: first-sentence
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
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    Michael Pollan
    “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
    ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    tags: diet, eating, food, omnivore, plants
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  • #13
    Lane Smith
    “It's a book, jackass.”
    ― Lane Smith, It's a Book
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: chocolate, monsters
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  • #15
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: biting, doctor-who, idris, kissing, the-doctor, the-doctor-s-wife
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: books
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  • #20
    Eva Darrows
    “Maybe she’d pick up a new makeup tip that wasn’t ‘Roll your face on the Revlon counter and see what happens.”
    ― Eva Darrows, The Awesome
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    David Bowie
    “Look up here, I'm in heaven!
    I've got scars that can't be seen
    I've got drama, can't be stolen,
    Everybody knows me now
    (...)
    This way or no way
    You know I'll be free
    Just like that bluebird
    Now, ain't that just like me?

    - Lazarus”
    ― David Bowie
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  • #22
    Ransom Riggs
    “Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.
    'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.
    'There's a library?'
    'Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.”
    ― Ransom Riggs
    tags: fines, libraries, reading
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: fiction, stories
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    Patrick Ness
    “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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  • #26
    Erin Morgenstern
    “This is a rabbit hole. Do you want to know the secret to surviving once you've gone down the rabbit hole?"
    Zachary nods and Mirabel leans forward. Her eyes are ringed with gold.
    "Be a rabbit," she whispers.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
    110 likes



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