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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    Tom Spanbauer
    “I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.”
    ― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
    tags: change, change-the-world, inception, inspirational, law-of-attraction, mind-body-spirit, mind-power, oppression
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    Tom Spanbauer
    “A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.”
    ― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
    tags: heterodoxy, self-knowledge, unorthodoxy, γνῶθι-σεαυτόν
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    Tom Spanbauer
    “You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.”
    ― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters
    tags: cock, hard-on, holy-grail, wisdom
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    Tom Spanbauer
    “The men stared with hatred, stared the way only Christians can hate, especially Mormons.”
    ― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
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    Tom Spanbauer
    “… most religious people had given up their right to being human beings by claiming they had the God's truth and nobody else had any truth.”
    ― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
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    Caitlin Doughty
    “Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
    ― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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    Caitlin Doughty
    “It is no surprise that the people trying so frantically to extend our lifespans are almost entirely rich, white men. Men who have lived lives of systematic privilege, and believe that privilege should extend indefinitely.”
    ― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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  • #9
    “I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
    ― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
    tags: identity, sense-of-self
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    Nicola Yoon
    “Everyone’s got someplace to be. Finding God is not on the schedule.
    - The sun is also a star”
    ― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
    tags: books, nicola-yoon, quotes, the-sun-is-also-a-star
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  • #11
    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: better
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: motherhood, parents-and-children
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  • #14
    Courtney M. Privett
    “We can find scraps of magic anywhere we look, tiny threads and fabric patches and buttons without matches. Allow a circle of space for that quiet magic to find you. That is your center, your home. Return to it when you need it. Find it again, name it your hearth, and wherever you are you’ll be home.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight
    tags: cottage-witch, hearth, home, magic
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    Rebecca Yarros
    “Your arm is shot, Sorrengail,” Tynan hisses, his face pale and sweaty. “I’m used to functioning in pain, asshole. Are you?” I raise the dagger in my right hand just to prove that I can despite the blood that runs down my arm and drips from the tip of my blade, saturating the wrap across my palm. My gaze drops meaningfully to his side.”
    ― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
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    Alice Oseman
    “Well... you could be
    bisexual?
    o-or something else! There are lots of sexualities other than gay and straight
    Anyway, you don't have to work it out, like, immediately
    I didn't just wake up one day like
    Oh look, guess I'm gay now!”
    ― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Two
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    Alice Oseman
    “There's this idea that if you're not straight, you HAVE to tell all your family and friends immediately, like you owe it to them. But you don't. You don't have to do anything until you're ready.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Three
    tags: coming-out, lgbtqia, queer
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    Alice Oseman
    “Nick and Charlie! Are the two of you coming, or-Oh. You're being gay. Good job. Carry on.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper - Volume 3
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    Caitlin Doughty
    “Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”
    ― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    tags: death, grief, mortality
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    Caitlin Doughty
    “Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said, “The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.”
    ― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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    Katya Apekina
    “I did not want to imagine her at all. Because if I allowed her in, I felt like I would lose myself again. It was better to take this rare opportunity that forced her off of me, and leave it that way.”
    ― Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
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    Katya Apekina
    “I remember hugging Chronos at night and burrowing my face in his fur, letting his purring replace the static that her words had left in my head.”
    ― Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
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    T.J. Klune
    “I’m an adult who does adult things, like taxes and laundry and being sad for no reason.”
    ― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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    T.J. Klune
    “Let them listen to what joy sounds like. Maybe they’ll learn a thing or two.”
    ― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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    T.J. Klune
    “Lucy tilted his head back, staring up at the ceiling. “It’s hard.”
    “What is?”
    “Being alive.”
    “It is,” Arthur agreed. “But perhaps that’s the point: the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.”
    ― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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    T.J. Klune
    “They surround themselves with like-minded people, and it creates an echo chamber that’s nigh on impossible to escape. A feedback loop that never ends.”
    ― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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  • #27
    T.J. Klune
    “There is magic in the ordinary, magic that has the power to change the world.”
    ― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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  • #28
    Chloe Gong
    “Who cared about values when the history books were being written? What did it matter if the history books re-wrote everything in the end?”
    ― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends
    tags: chloe-gong, history, our-violent-ends
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