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#1

“The deaths—tiny ones, false ones, real ones—we undertake in the name of love are the closest that we ever come to greatness.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

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#2

“Small people need to talk more loudly to be heard.
Well I'm small aren't I, I'm not even 1.6 metres tall, but you don't see me raising my voice.
Maybe you're okay with not being heard.
I just want to be heard by the right people. The right person.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

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#3

“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

tags: disappointment, loves-ones, mistakes, self-reliance, trust

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#4

“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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#5

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization

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#6

“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: happiness, pleasure, smiling, women

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#7

“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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#8

“The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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#9

“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: life-philosophy

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#10

“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: love

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#11

“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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#12

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: curses, happiness, heartbreak, life

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#13

“I admired her perseverance. I wouldn't keep trying if I was seemingly bad at something but I guess if that were the case I would have given up on life in general.”
― George Haddad, Populate and Perish

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#14

“The fruit tasted like earth, as if energy had a flavour.”
― George Haddad, Populate and Perish

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#15

“I feel like a person, born on this earth with inextricable links to different places. No ethnicity, no claim.”
― George Haddad, Populate and Perish

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#16

“I was happy to have known him and experience whatever it was we did. I guess what I'm trying to say is, people try so bloody hard to fashion their lives. To curate their relationships, to make sure they tick off stuff that they want to do, collect everything they think they should collect. But what if we just let fate fashion us? What if we just let life wheel us along organically without so much resistance and intervention?”
― George Haddad, Populate and Perish

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#17

“Happiness is like water,’ she says. ‘We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers.”
― Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water

tags: happiness, life

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#18

“...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.”
― Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water

tags: leaving-home, life-journeys, nostalgia

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#20

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: mistakes

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#21

“Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: bravery, fear, overcoming, persistence

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#22

“Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: inspirational, thug-life, tupac

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#23

“People like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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#24

“Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: death, goodbye, goodbyes, grief, loss, mourning

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#25

“Be roses that grow in the concrete.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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#26

“People are realizing and shouting and marching and demanding. They’re not forgetting. I think that’s the most important part.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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#27

“It's like a 'Fragile' sticker's on my forehead, and instead of taking a chance and saying something that might break me, they'd rather say nothing at all. But the silence is worst.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: grief-and-loss, mourning, vulnerable

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#28

“And at the end of the day, you don’t kill someone for opening a car door. If you do, you shouldn’t be a cop.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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#29

“Spring has decided to go through an identity crisis and get chilly on me.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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#30

“WebMD calls it a stage of grief - anger. But I doubt I'll ever get to the other stages. This one slices me into millions of pieces. Every time I'm whole and back to normal, something happens to tear me apart, and I'm forced to start all over again.
The rain lets up. The devil stops beating his wife, but I beat the dashboard, punching it over and over, numb to the pain of it. I wanna be numb to the pain of all this.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: anger, depression, grief, numb, pain, rain

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#31

“I look at the stars again. Daddy says he named me Starr because I was his light in the darkness. I need some light in my own darkness right about now.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: family, love, motivational

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