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    Paul Kalanithi
    “You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
    ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
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    Paul Kalanithi
    “Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
    ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Laini Taylor
    “I would have chosen you, if they had let me choose.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: boys, rain, summer
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    Madeline Miller
    “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: love
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker, six-of-crows
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    Markus Zusak
    “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
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, grisha, inej-ghafa, six-of-crows
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    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational
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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live.
    The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: death, inspiring, universe, we-are-the-ants
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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “We're not words, Henry, we're people.
    Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: aliens, bullying, death, history, life, loss, love, space, stars, teen, ya
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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: life, memories, we-are-the-ants
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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: future, inspiring, life, we-are-the-ants, writing
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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: aliens, bullying, death, depression, history, life, loss, love, space, stars, suicide, teen, ya
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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: aliens, death, depression, life, loss, love, space, suicide, teen, ya
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    Shaun David Hutchinson
    “Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.”
    ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
    tags: aliens, death, gravity, love, teens, ya
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    Alice Oseman
    “I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
    ― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence
    tags: alice-oseman, radio-silence
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: children
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    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, stories, storytelling, young-adult
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    Laini Taylor
    “It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreaming, dreams, goals, impossible
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    Laini Taylor
    “I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, stories, storytelling, strange-the-dreamer, young-adult
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    Laini Taylor
    “And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, young-adult
    563 likes



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