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#1

“Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Spy

tags: inspirational, subjectivity

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#2

“This and this and this.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: love, understanding

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#3

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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#4

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#5

“Hesitation is the death of advantage.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

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#6

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76194 likes

#7

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#8

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

9925 likes

#9

“I choose you over everyone.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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#10

“My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#11

“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness.
Her raven boys.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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#12

“...she made her home in between the pages of books.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

tags: book-lover, grace

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#13

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#14

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, afterlife, death, greek-mythology, grief, love, mythology, patroclus

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#15

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#16

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

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#17

“Time might heal all wounds, but what about the scars those wounds left behind?”
― Leslye Walton, The Price Guide to the Occult

tags: nor

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#18

“You found me in a constellation.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

tags: youngadult

379 likes

#19

“There are monsters in the sea.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

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#20

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

20036 likes

#21

“She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

1581 likes

#22

“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#23

“I wanted the two of us to be complicated together, to be difficult and engrossing and blindingly brilliant.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte

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#24

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

tags: nerd, reality

2116 likes

#25

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

tags: books, humor

1828 likes

#26

“It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

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#27

“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

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#28

“Being invisible when you used to be seen...it's like being dead, but no one mourns you.”
― C.L. Herman

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#29

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

2143 likes

#30

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: inspirational, life, meaning

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