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    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    “Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
    No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
    tags: adam, ignite-me
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    “Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
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    “Time goes on even when we do not.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
    tags: juliette, unravel-me
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    “If the decision you’ve made has brought you closer to humanity, then you’ve done the right thing.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
    tags: avleos, the-right-thing
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    “I wondered, for the very first time, if maybe I was doing this whole thing wrong. If maybe I'd allowed myself to be blinded by my own anger to the exclusion of all else. If maybe, just maybe, I'd been so determined not to be stereotyped that I'd begun to stereotype everyone around me.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
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    “I understood too well what it was like to feel like you were defined by one superficial thing- to feel like you would never excape the box people had put you in”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
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  • #8
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
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  • #9
    Sarah J. Maas
    “She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
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  • #11
    Sarah J. Maas
    “When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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  • #13
    “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
    ― H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land
    tags: misattributed-cassandra-clare, misattributed-jace
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  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary, jace, sarcasm
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale
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    Cassandra Clare
    “There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
    tags: freedom, lady-midnight, life, love, mark-blackthorn
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    Cassandra Clare
    “These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
    tags: emma-carstairs, julian-blackthorn, lady-midnight, love
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
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    Cassandra Clare
    “She has seen so many tragedies, and they both knew the worst tragedies were born of love.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic
    tags: magnus-bane, tessa-gray
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    Garrard Conley
    “What my mother didn’t yet know about being gay in the South was that you never ran out of material, that being secretly gay your whole life, averting your eyes every time you saw a handsome man, praying on your knees every time a sexual thought entered your mind or every time you’d acted even remotely feminine—this gave you an embarrassment of sins for which you constantly felt the need to apologize, repent, beg forgiveness.”
    ― Garrard Conley, Boy Erased: A Memoir
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    Garrard Conley
    “Love, over time, could either blossom or wither, become a source of wonder or a remembered ache.”
    ― Garrard Conley, Boy Erased
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    Garrard Conley
    “You cut out what was once dear to you, ignore the ache in the back of your throat, erase the details you want to forget.”
    ― Garrard Conley, Boy Erased
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    Garrard Conley
    “Sometimes it was what you left unsaid or undone that drew you into a state of wonder.”
    ― Garrard Conley, Boy Erased
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  • #24
    Garrard Conley
    “I came to therapy thinking that my sexuality didn’t matter, but it turned out that every part of my personality was intimately connected. Cutting one piece damaged the rest.”
    ― Garrard Conley
    tags: deep, inspirational, sexuality, true
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  • #25
    “It’s not the pain that’s unendurable. It’s the hopelessness. It’s the hopelessness that makes you reckless.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shadow Me
    tags: hope, pain
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  • #26
    “I’m lonely but I’m not alone. My body works, my brain works, I’m alive. It’s a good life. I have to make a conscious effort to remember that. To choose to be happy every day. If I didn’t, I think my own pain would’ve killed me a long time ago.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shadow Me
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  • #27
    “It's not insane to imagine that sometimes even horrible people are searching for a way out of their own darkness.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me
    tags: nazeera-ibrahim
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  • #28
    “Happiness does not happen. Happiness must be uncovered, separated from the skin of pain. It must be claimed. Kept close. Protected.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me
    tags: defy-me, ella, juliette-ferrars, warner
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  • #29
    “I want to remember to celebrate more. I want to remember to experience more joy. I want to allow myself to be happy more frequently. I want to remember, forever, this look on Aaron's face, as he's bullied into blowing out his birthday candles for the very first time.
    This is, after all, what we're fighting for, isn't it?
    A second chance at joy.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me
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  • #30
    “I love you, Ella. I will love you for the rest of my life. My heart is yours. Please don't ever give it back to me.

    - Warner”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me
    tags: aaron-warner, defy-me, ella-sommers, juliette-ferrars, love, shatter-me-series, spoilers, tahereh-mafi, warnette
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