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    Alex Silvius
    “The jellyfish screams
    But no one hears it.

    For it has no vocal chords.”
    ― Alex Silvius, Jellyfish Through My Heart
    tags: poetry, thoughts
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    Louis Alistair
    “Answering light was my only calling in life.”
    ― Louis Alistair, The Eyes on the Backs of Moths
    tags: fantasy, fiction, middle-grade, novella, ya
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
    6320 likes

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    Debbie Viguié
    “Half full, half empty - it doesn't matter. It's the same glass of water.”
    ― Debbie Viguié, The Summer of Cotton Candy
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads
    6288 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: books, reading
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    K. Weikel
    “If life were a song,
    mine would not go on,
    and the tune would be ruined by my scratches”
    ― K. Weikel, Stop
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    K. Weikel
    “We can't always be the bridge. Sometimes we have to be the flooding river.”
    ― K. Weikel, The One-Hundred
    tags: river, standing-tall, standing-up, standing-your-ground
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: description, language, power-of-words, words
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    Mira Grant
    “Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.”
    ― Mira Grant, Feed
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    Tui T. Sutherland
    “There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest."
    "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?”
    ― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir
    tags: dragons, glory, starflight, tree
    425 likes

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  • #12
    Veronica Roth
    “I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: four, heartbreaking, tobias
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “For who listens to headlines,
    Who watches the news,
    And thinks that things spoken could happen to you?”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, There is Us
    tags: coronavirus, covid-19, pandemic
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “There is goodness to think about but sometimes we don’t consider them until the darkest times”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, There is Us
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “My grandpa likes to tell real ghost stories. He loves explaining that term because it’s something he uses to describe the stories that are scary but true. He goes back to the war, when so many people fought and died. Then he goes even further and talks about the world in general. He always ends with one specific line:
    “The reason I’m telling you this is because the world survives through stories and without them we are nothing.”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, There is Us
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  • #16
    “Even shallow cuts bleed
    (Especially if they touch the heart)”
    ― Ziel, There is Us
    tags: love
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  • #17
    “Remember my child, listen and learn
    With a story like this, the lessons were earned”
    ― Daniel L.S. Jones, There is Us
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    Erelah Emerson
    “I tell her-
    it is okay
    to be a little quiet,
    but when she wants to shout,
    I stand and let her riot,
    I tell her-
    I am here, love,
    I will sit or stand or run,
    and she says
    I am afraid, dear,
    I am tired,
    I am done.”
    ― Erelah Emerson, There is Us
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    Erelah Emerson
    “The years go by,
    I don't know why,
    I cannot feel the sun.”
    ― Erelah Emerson, Erratic and Unnecessary
    tags: poetry
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    Erelah Emerson
    “Because her mother told her quietly
    As soon as she had started to live
    That children are only valuable
    If they have something to give.”
    ― Erelah Emerson, Erratic and Unnecessary
    tags: deep, emotional, meaningful, poetry
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “I don't like sharing pain with others because pain makes people numb. Yet sometimes, when my thoughts catch up with me, I wonder what it would be like to pour them onto someone else.”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, There is Us
    tags: deep, meaningful, poetry
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “None of us seem to have a purpose anymore but my search has become my purpose.”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, There is Us
    tags: anthology, coronavirus, covid, deep, meaningful, poetry
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    K. Weikel
    “We’re all flawed. We’re all monsters. Our ugly parts are in different places, but they’re all the same.”
    ― K. Weikel, Replay: Green
    tags: all-the-same, flaw, flawed, imperfect, imperfections, monster, monsters, sin, ugly
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    Joseph Boot
    “Either God exists or he does not. There is no middle ground. Both cannot be true. No amount of philosophical trickery can hide from the greatest antithesis of them all ... We cannot leave this question for the intellectuals, scientists, philosophers and theologians alone ... We must answer it for ourselves.”
    ― Joe Boot, A Time to Search
    tags: apologetics
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    Joseph Boot
    “We do not owe the truth to those who want to use it for evil.”
    ― Joe Boot
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    Joseph Boot
    “The role of the Christian apologist is not to re-invent Christianity; it would cease to be Christianity if I did!”
    ― Joe Boot, A Time to Search
    tags: apologetics
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “We could not hold the burdens on our backs, so we left them in order to find our own way, revealing the world to the innocent so that they could bear their own weight.”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, Faces to the Sun
    tags: anthology, art, mental-health, poetry
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “I lift myself from lifeless hands
    and cut the tethers from my soul
    until I rise, my bonds cut free,
    to join the flowers that are whole.”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, Faces to the Sun
    tags: anthology, art, mental-health, poem, poetry
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    Louis Alistair
    “The light of the earth was not as pure as the light from the sky. It tasted of darkness and death.”
    ― Louis Alistair, The Eyes on the Backs of Moths
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  • #30
    Stephen King
    “If we have free will, then you have to invite evil in.”
    ― Stephen King, Later
    tags: horror, later
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