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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Shelly Crane
    “You have to make your own happy. You can’t depend on other people for that.”
    ― Shelly Crane, Devour
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    Mark Batterson
    “Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”
    ― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
    tags: creativity, faith, god, writing-life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
    tags: sandman
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    Blaize Clement
    “They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.”
    ― Blaize Clement, Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Orson Scott Card
    “You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
    ― Orson Scott Card
    tags: art, writers, writing
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    “we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi
    tags: writers, writing-philosophy, writing-process
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  • #10
    Muriel Rukeyser
    “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
    ― Muriel Rukeyser
    tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers
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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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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: secrets
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    Michelle Hodkin
    “Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
    tags: secrets
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot more emeaglibop.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, How to construct a coffin with six karate chops
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    Jennifer R. Hubbard
    “Nothing Stays Secret Forever”
    ― Jennifer R. Hubbard
    tags: secrets
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  • #17
    William Gibson
    “Secrets...are the very root of cool.”
    ― William Gibson, Spook Country
    tags: cool, secrets
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    Jeremy Aldana
    “To know a man’s secrets is to discover his weakness, and thus control his will”
    ― Jeremy Aldana
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    Shaun Hick
    “It's sad that in a world of billions, people can still feel isolated and alone. Sometimes all it takes to brighten up someone's day is a smile or kind word, or the generous actions of a complete stranger. Small things, the tiny details, these are the things that matter in life — the little glint in the eye, curve of a lip, nod of a head, wave of a hand — such minuscule movements have huge ripple effects.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: generosity, good-deeds, isolated, isolation, loneliness, lonely, lonely-people, make-a-difference, minuscule, population, ripple-effect, sad, sadness, smile, stranger
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
    tags: benevolence, charity, good-deeds, kindness, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich
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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
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    Mitch Albom
    “Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: life, love
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  • #23
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    tags: spirituality
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    Walter Kirn
    “Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.”
    ― Walter Kirn
    tags: 2011, 2011-tuscon-shooting, blame-game, hypocrisy, twitter, witch-hunts
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  • #26
    Michelle Hodkin
    “I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
    tags: couples, kiss, mara-dyer, noah-shaw, ya
    516 likes

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  • #27
    Kelly Oram
    “Besides, if one little kiss makes her a slut, I'd hate to know what that makes you.”
    ― Kelly Oram, Being Jamie Baker
    tags: kiss, slut
    80 likes



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