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    David Arnold
    “We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be.”
    ― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite
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    David Arnold
    “I think Mad saw in books what I saw in art: the weightless beauty of the universe.”
    ― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite
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    David Arnold
    “I used to think love was bound by numbers: first kisses, second dances, infinite heartbreaks. I used to think numbers outlasted the love itself, surviving in the dark corners of the demolished heart. I used to think love was heavy and hard.
    I don’t think those things anymore.”
    ― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite
    tags: love
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    David Arnold
    “They understood that lasting pain could only be dealt at the root.”
    ― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite
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    David Arnold
    “They lived and they laughed and they saw it was good.”
    ― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite
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  • #6
    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I feel like the word shatter.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    “It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.”
    ― Violet Rose
    tags: objectification, objectification-of-women, sexualization, sexualization-of-women
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    Adam Silvera
    “I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.”
    ― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End
    tags: comparison, dying, living, race, safety
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Rebecca Makkai
    “But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory—letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
    ― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
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    Rebecca Makkai
    “If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple. And it’s not. But listen: You two are on the planet at the same time. You’re in the same place now. That’s a miracle. I just want to say that.”
    ― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
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    Hank Green
    “You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.”
    ― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
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    John Green
    “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska
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    Fredrik Backman
    “People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
    tags: descriptive, love-quote
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    Emily X.R. Pan
    “The purpose of memory is to remind us how to live.”
    ― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After
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    Matt Haig
    “That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days - some years - some decades - are empty. There is nothing to them. It's just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.”
    ― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
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    Matt Haig
    “Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.”
    ― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
    tags: concert, concerts, music, music-quotes, musical, musical-quotes, song, songs
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    Matt Haig
    “People you love never die. That is what Omai had said, all those years ago. And he was right. They don't die. Not completely. They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters.”
    ― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
    tags: dead-and-gone, dead-people, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, dying-love, keeping-their-spirit-alive, never-forget
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    Matt Haig
    “Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”
    ― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Beartown
    tags: love, passion, trust
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, love
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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  • #27
    David Arnold
    “Music was more than subjective; it was erratic. It was the ship on the horizon that one sailor saw, the other sailor didn’t.”
    ― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite
    tags: music
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