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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Cassandra Clare
    “You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
    "A long one?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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    Holly Black
    “It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: cardan-greenbriar, swoon
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    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
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    Holly Black
    “It’s ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,” Vivi says. “Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
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    Holly Black
    “You don't know how long I've waited to hear those words," he says. "You don't want me dead.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
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    Holly Black
    “Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued," Cardan says. "For once.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
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    Holly Black
    “I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: resilient
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: anticipation
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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