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    Ruta Sepetys
    “Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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    V.E. Schwab
    “I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
    "Seen what?"
    Her smile widened. "Everything.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
    tags: kell, lila
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    Jane Austen
    “Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: agreement, compliments, discussion, disdain, intelligence, opposition, rationality, reason
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: feminism, inspirational, jo-march, life, little-women
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
    tags: friends, silence
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “I wept because i had no shoes,
    until i met a man who had no feet.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
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    “If you loved, sacrifice became less a noble thing and more a matter of course. You did it because you would not be happy otherwise. And because you would not be happy otherwise, the sacrifice was no sacrifice!”
    ― Christina Dudley
    tags: love, sacrifice
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: fools, lies, pretending, pretense, truth
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    Renée Ahdieh
    “I’ve never been angry to have been born a woman. There have been times I’ve been angry at how the world treats us, but I see being a woman as a challenge I must fight. Like being born under a stormy sky. Some people are lucky enough to be born on a bright summer’s day. Maybe we were born under clouds. No wind. No rain. Just a mountain of clouds we must climb each morning so that we may see the sun.”
    ― Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
    tags: beauty
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
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    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death
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    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Markus Zusak
    “He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

    She was the book thief without the words.

    Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Markus Zusak
    “My heart is so tired”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
    tags: adventure, fun
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
    tags: laugh
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    Victoria Schwab
    “I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."

    "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: books, clichés, constancy, double-standards, education, feminism, gender, inequality, love, men, misogyny, opportunities, social-norms, stereotypes, women
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    Jane Austen
    “I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Victoria Schwab
    “If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky. Better that than firewood, cut down just to burn in someone else's hearth.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Alison Croggon
    “There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.”
    ― Alison Croggon, The Naming
    tags: croggon, love, naming, pellinor, silvia
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    Sharon Shinn
    “You say I have the power to break you--well, you have changed me, and I did not think I was capable of changing again. I only hope you will not abandon me, so altered and strange to myself, because you think I am too proud to accept your love. I would hate for my life to go on like that, empty of you. I think I would be the one to finally break after that.”
    ― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider
    tags: love, relationships
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    Georgette Heyer
    “Because I have not spoken, do not imagine that I have not felt!’ said Miss Morville. ‘I had no right to speak, but I have very often burned to do so!”
    ― Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman
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    Traci Chee
    “But books are curious objects. They have the power to trap, transport, and even transform you if you are lucky.”
    ― Traci Chee, The Reader
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