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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro
    tags: inspirational, missed-chances
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: memory
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Jane Austen
    “My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
    'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion
    1987 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Janet Fitch
    “Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.”
    ― Janet Fitch
    tags: artist, insults, knowledge, poison, remember
    605 likes

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    Janet Fitch
    “In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.”
    ― Janet Fitch
    tags: hurt, scars, stitches, visible, white-oleander
    559 likes

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    Janet Fitch
    “Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.”
    ― Janet Fitch
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    Janet Fitch
    “Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind. ”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: beautiful
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    Janet Fitch
    “If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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    Janet Fitch
    “this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces”
    ― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black
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    Janet Fitch
    “She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: sadness
    62 likes

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    Janet Fitch
    “A womans mistakes are different from a girls”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: different, girl, mistake, woman
    65 likes

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    Janet Fitch
    “A fish has no concept of water.”
    ― Janet Fitch
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    Janet Fitch
    “And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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    Janet Fitch
    “Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.
    He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: astrid, displaced, home, never, paul
    25 likes

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    Janet Fitch
    “A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.”
    ― Janet Fitch
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    Janet Fitch
    “The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: art, museums
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    Janet Fitch
    “Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: thought-provoking
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    André Aciman
    “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
    ― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love
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    André Aciman
    “Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    528 likes

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    André Aciman
    “How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: admire, call-me-by-your-name, relatives, romance, vices
    84 likes

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  • #28
    Patti Smith
    “Paths that cross will cross again.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Patti Smith
    “I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    127 likes



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