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  • #1
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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    George Carlin
    “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
    ― George Carlin
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    William Shakespeare
    “By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: foreshadowing, macbeth
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  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “Tis now the very witching time of night,
    When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
    Contagion to this world; now could I drink hot blood,
    And do such bitter business as the day
    Would quake to look on.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!”
    ― William Shakespeare
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  • #7
    Emily Dickinson
    “One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
    One need not be a House —
    The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
    Material Place —”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
    tags: poetry
    56 likes

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  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: humor, men, witchcraft, witches, women
    3394 likes

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  • #9
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden
    tags: miracles, princes, witches
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  • #10
    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
    “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
    ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
    tags: romance
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    Jane Austen
    “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: mr-darcy, pride-and-prejudice
    2489 likes

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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
    12130 likes

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    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
    "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
    I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: romance
    3389 likes

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  • #16
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Invisible things are the only realities.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath
    tags: humor, satire
    1132 likes

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  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: melancholy
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  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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  • #19
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #20
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
    tags: death, life
    528 likes

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  • #21
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Harper Lee
    “Nothin’s real scary except in books.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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  • #23
    Harper Lee
    “I shall never marry, Atticus."
    "Why?"
    "I might have children.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    117 likes

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  • #24
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
    18077 likes

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  • #25
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
    3741 likes

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  • #26
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
    2766 likes

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  • #27
    Ryan Mecum
    “Blood is really warm,
    it's like drinking hot chocolate
    but with more screaming.”
    ― Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains
    tags: blood, haiku, horror, humor, zombies
    294 likes

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  • #28
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
    4623 likes



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