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    Lewis Carroll
    “I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-lewis-carroll
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship, soul
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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  • #7
    Anne Sexton
    “It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
    ― Anne Sexton
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    Colson Whitehead
    “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”
    ― Colson Whitehead
    tags: monsters, people, pretense
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  • #9
    Jeanette Winterson
    “She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
    tags: daughters, monsters, mothers
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: moi
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: wallflower
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  • #12
    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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  • #14
    “People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.”
    ― Walter Langer
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  • #15
    Tera Lynn Childs
    “Pain is weakness leaving the body”
    ― Tera Lynn Childs, Oh. My. Gods.
    tags: exercise, pain, phoebe
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  • #16
    William Glasser
    “What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.”
    ― William Glasser
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: political-philosophy
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    Ralph Ellison
    “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Markus Zusak
    “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: pain, sadness, stoicism
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    Markus Zusak
    “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: truth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: sanity
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.”
    ― J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    John Milton
    “For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
    ― John Milton, Areopagitica
    tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
    11916 likes

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  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    Don DeLillo
    “How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
    ― Don DeLillo, The Names
    tags: ghoul, liberation, novel
    411 likes



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