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    Lauren Oliver
    “This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Requiem
    tags: alex, delirium, julian, lauren-oliver, lena, requiem
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    André Brink
    “In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
    ― Andre Brink, Before I Forget
    tags: love
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    Countee Cullen
    “There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
    ― Countee Cullen
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    Molière
    “It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
    ― Molière
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    Derek Walcott
    “Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
    ― Derek Walcott
    tags: poetry
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    Stieg Larsson
    “What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: adoration, infatuation, love
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
    5433 likes

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    Ezra Pound
    “There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books
    1052 likes

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    Sarah Waters
    “I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
    ― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
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    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    ― Jonathan Kellerman
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    Katherine Boo
    “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
    ― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    tags: truth
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    Mary Renault
    “True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
    ― mary renault, Fire from Heaven
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    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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    Donna Tartt
    “I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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    Jane Green
    “Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
    ― Jane Green, The Beach House
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    Michael Dobbs
    “Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?”
    ― Michael Dobbs
    613 likes



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