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    E.L. James
    “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
    tags: love
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: human-nature
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: imperfect, love
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  • #10
    “All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.”
    ― Betty White
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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  • #12
    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: by-anne-sullivan, emotions, feelings
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    W.H. Auden
    “The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: fairy-tales
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
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    “Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.”
    ― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
    tags: anime
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night
    tags: life, life-experience
    624 likes

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    Jacob Grimm
    “Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.”
    ― The Brothers Grimm
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    Jacob Grimm
    “I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.”
    ― Brothers Grimm
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    Jacob Grimm
    “My mother, she killed me,
    My father, he ate me,
    My sister Marlene,
    Gathered all my bones,
    Tied them in a silken scarf,
    Laid them beneath the juniper tree,
    Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.”
    ― Brothers Grimm, The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club
    tags: evil, humanity
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner
    tags: dead, forgotten, tess-gerritsen, the-sinner
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner
    tags: dead, death, hurt, life, living, tess-gerritsen, the-sinner
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon
    tags: evil, immune, lightning
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner
    tags: gambling, love
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  • #26
    Tess Gerritsen
    “Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: impossible
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    Gosho Aoyama
    “Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai”
    ― Gosho Aoyama
    tags: crime-fiction, detective-conan, mystery
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  • #29
    Wilhelm Grimm
    “He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.”
    ― Wilhelm Karl Grimm
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  • #30
    Wilhelm Grimm
    “He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you”
    ― Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Grimm'S Fairy Tales
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  • #31
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    1919 likes



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