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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: image, self
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Colson Whitehead
    “And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
    ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
    tags: african-americans, america, cruelty, delusions, native-americans, race-relations, slavery, theft, united-states, united-states-of-america, us, usa, war
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    Celia Rees
    “Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.”
    ― Celia Rees, Pirates!
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    Avi
    “A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.”
    ― Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
    tags: inspirational, life, sailor, ship, wind
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    Celia Rees
    “You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.”
    ― Celia Rees, Pirates!
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: defend
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: men, mountains, rocks
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    Maya Angelou
    “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “No emotion is the final one.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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    Randa Abdel-Fattah
    “Belief means nothing without actions”
    ― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?
    tags: actions, belive
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    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.'

    Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
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    Maya Angelou
    “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
    of things unknown, but longed for still,
    and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
    for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1969, inspirational
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    Jandy Nelson
    “My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
    tags: death, grief, grieving, loss, love, sadness
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    Jandy Nelson
    “Each time someone dies, a library burns.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
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    Jandy Nelson
    “All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
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    Randa Abdel-Fattah
    “Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.”
    ― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?
    tags: change, people
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: faith, fate, fear
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    Dante Alighieri
    “In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: pain, storm, summer
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: adolescence, awkwardness, emotion, school
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31524 likes



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