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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Everyone should forgive themselves, Vick.” He gave her wrist another squeeze then let her go, looking out towards the lake again. “After all… no one else will.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Alexandra Bracken
    “The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.”
    ― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
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    Ransom Riggs
    “No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls
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    John Grisham
    “Most men cannot write good sex.”
    ― John Grisham
    tags: humor
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    Bill Gates
    “If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
    ― Bill Gates
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    Ransom Riggs
    “You're getting overwhelmed," said Emma. "Big tasks always seem that way if you try and figure out every little piece of them beforehand. We have to take it bit by bit.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days
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    Ransom Riggs
    “Travel is crucial to one’s development,” said Miss Peregrine, her tone strangely defensive. “Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days
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    Eoin Colfer
    “If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Eoin Colfer
    “I don't like lollipops.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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    Michael McDowell
    “Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.”
    ― Michael McDowell
    tags: horror, writing
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    Mark Manson
    “Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
    ― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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    David Richo
    “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
    ― David Richo
    tags: healing, inspiration, pain, psychology, relationships, therapy
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    Eoin Colfer
    “I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
    tags: mysterious
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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    Jack Kirby
    “Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.”
    ― Jack Kirby
    tags: jack-kirby
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: inspirational, life, metaphor
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: life, quiet, silence, tranquility
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    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I said to you,
    "Hold my hand.
    Nothing bad will happen."

    These are only words.
    A father's tricks,
    It slays your father,
    your faith in him.
    Because all I can think tonight is
    how deep the sea,
    and how vast, how indifferent.
    How powerless I am to protect you from it.

    All I can do is pray.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
    tags: afghanistan, poetry, refugees, syria
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
    tags: abercrombie, logen-ninefingers
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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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    Hans Rosling
    “There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”
    ― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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  • #28
    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
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    Lee Goldberg
    “Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist."

    "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad."

    "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.”
    ― Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk on the Couch
    tags: goldberg, happiness, lee, miserable, monk, mr-monk, natalie, sad, unconsciousness
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    Paul Jenkins
    “A leader knows it's not so hard to die for your people. It's hard to order your people to die for you. And leading with certainty in an uncertain future doesn't require sight. It requires vision. It requires holding on. And no matter what happens, never letting go.”
    ― Paul Jenkins, X-men: Prelude to Schism
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