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Jess’s Quotes

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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“The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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“...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: self-sacrifice, selflessness

1935 likes

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

tags: motherhood, unconditional-love

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