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  • #1
    Charles Dickens
    “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #2
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #3
    Jay Asher
    “Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true—that aren't really how we feel—but they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about.”
    Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

  • #4
    Paulien Cornelisse
    “Praten is net als fietsen: als je erover na gaat denken, val je om.”
    Paulien Cornelisse, Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding
    tags: taal

  • #5
    Richard Dawkins
    “A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.”
    Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

  • #6
    Alex Flinn
    “Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”
    Alex Flinn, Beastly
    tags: magic

  • #7
    William Golding
    “Sucks to your ass-mar!”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #8
    You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you
    “You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
    Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

  • #9
    Alex Flinn
    “I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending.”
    Alex Flinn, Beastly
    tags: magic

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”
    Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

  • #11
    Homer
    “Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
    that we devise their misery. But they
    themselves- in their depravity- design
    grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
    Homer, The Odyssey

  • #12
    William Golding
    “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #13
    Alex Flinn
    “The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.”
    Alex Flinn, Beastly
    tags: magic

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #15
    Richard Dawkins
    “Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies.”
    Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

  • #16
    Paulien Cornelisse
    “Het probleem met Nederlanders en genieten is natuurlijk dat we er te veel over nadenken. We mogen pas met vakantie als we er eerst hard voor gewerkt hebben. Een beloning zonder dat daar eerst voor geleden is, past neit bij onze calvinistische mentaliteit.”
    Paulien Cornelisse, Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding
    tags: taal

  • #17
    David Levithan
    “It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.”
    David Levithan

  • #18
    Patrick Ness
    Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #19
    Richard Dawkins
    “Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.”
    Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

  • #20
    Jay Asher
    “That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.”
    Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

  • #21
    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    Socrates

  • #22
    David Levithan
    “i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe in that. i believe against that.”
    David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #23
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to return the favor.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #24
    Paulien Cornelisse
    “Je kop niet boven het maaiveld uit mogen steken? 'Zooo nederlands.”
    Paulien Cornelisse, Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding
    tags: taal

  • #25
    Richard Dawkins
    “We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”
    Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

  • #26
    Dan    Brown
    “Gaea. The planet is an organism. All of us are cells with different purposes. And yet we are intertwined. Serving each other. Serving the whole.”
    Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

  • #27
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #28
    Paulien Cornelisse
    “Mensen vragen graag aan elkaar hoe het gaat. Waarom dat is, weet ik niet, want het antwoord interesseert doorgaans niemand.”
    Paulien Cornelisse, Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding
    tags: taal

  • #29
    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #30
    Paulien Cornelisse
    “Kortom: focking is taalverrijking en daar moeten we dankbaar voor zijn.”
    Paulien Cornelisse, Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding
    tags: taal



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