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    Rick Riordan
    “He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: dead, nico, percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
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    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Herman Melville
    “It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history
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    T.J. Klune
    “And the spiders?"
    "Still there."
    "But?"
    "But I can have spiders in my head as long as I don't let them consume me.”
    ― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
    tags: nightmares, spiders, thoughts, worries
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “We are all stardust and stories.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
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    Alice Oseman
    “Hello.
    I hope somebody is listening.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence
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    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “We’re here to wander through other people’s stories, searching for our own.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “How are you feeling? Zachary asks. “Like I’m losing my mind but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
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    T.J. Klune
    “People suck, but sometimes, they should just drown in their own suckage without our help.”
    ― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “Their story is only just beginning. And no story ever truly ends as long as it is told.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
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    Herman Melville
    “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: religion, sobriety
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    T.J. Klune
    “Don’t you wish you were here?”
    ― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea
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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    Donna Tartt
    “It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: life
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    Rick Riordan
    “I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.
    Nico hesitated. "I don’t play that game anymore. It’s for kids."
    "It’s got four thousand attack power," I coaxed.
    "Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."
    I smiled. "Maybe it’s okay to still be a kid once in a while.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: hades, nico-diangelo, percy-jackson
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “Reading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
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    Seanan McGuire
    “It gets better. It never gets easy, but it does start to hurt a little less.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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  • #29
    Susanna Clarke
    “May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
    tags: beauty, house, path
    315 likes



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