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#1

“Big things are often just little things that people notice.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

#2

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

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#3

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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#4

“I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message. ”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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#5

“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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#6

“I'm just another stupid human.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: humanity

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#7

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

9870 likes

#8

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#9

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#10

“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

1535 likes

#11

“A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

1633 likes

#12

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: humor

1160 likes

#13

“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death, funeral, life

884 likes

#14

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: death, die, fountainhead, life, live, mortality

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#15

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: independence

2565 likes

#16

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness

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#17

“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: ideas, integrity, moral-courage

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#18

“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#19

“I keep wishing, reflexively, for a glimpse of the future, so I'll know what to do. But I don't kid myself. I have to feel my way forward blindly. I try not to be afraid. Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.”
― Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot

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#20

“No amount of wishing will bring back the dead.”
― Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot

tags: death

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#21

“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The High King

tags: heroism

164 likes

#22

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

tags: destiny, path, questioning

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#23

“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

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#24

“The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Updated Edition

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#25

“We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.”
― Oswald Chambers

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#26

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#27