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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, inspirational
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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  • #5
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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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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    Suzanne Collins
    “We could do it, you know."
    "What?"
    "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: life, love, survival, ya, young-adult
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
    tags: urban-fantasy, young-adult
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    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, stories, storytelling, young-adult
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  • #10
    Rick Yancey
    “You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, choices, fiction, horror, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
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  • #11
    Laini Taylor
    “I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, stories, storytelling, strange-the-dreamer, young-adult
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  • #12
    “Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
    Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. "I did.”
    ― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, heartbreaking, sexual-abuse
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “It was easier to not have to explain, anyway. To not have to tell him that though I'd freed him, saved his people and all of Prythian from Amarantha... I'd broken myself apart.
    And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, emotional, feyre, heartbreaking, new-adult-romance, sarah-j-maas
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    Judy Blume
    “Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...”
    ― Judy Blume, Forever...
    tags: break-up, break-ups, broken, broken-heart, falling-apart, heartbreaking, heartbroken, hurt, love
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  • #15
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: christmas, heartbreaking, metaphor, santa
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: adultery, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, cheat, cheater, cheaters, cheating, commit, commitment, concubine, concubines, courtesan, courtesans, date, dating, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, heartbreak, heartbreaker, heartbreakers, heartbreaking, heartbroken, hetaera, hetaerae, hetaeras, hetaira, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, hurt, hurting, hurts, infidelity, joke, jokes, kept-woman, kept-women, love, marriage, marriages, marry, mistress, mistresses, relationship, relationships, satire, side-chick, side-chicks, side-dick, side-dicks, wedding, weddings
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    Shari J. Ryan
    “I want the freedom to explore the world, sleep beneath the stars, eat from the land, and take pride of every feat I endure.”
    ― Shari J. Ryan, The Maid's Secret
    tags: completely-addictive, european-history, heartbreaking, historical-fiction, holocaust, kindle-unlimited, utterly-gripping, war, world-war-ii, world-war-two
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    Estelle Maskame
    “That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.”
    ― Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Love You?
    tags: contemporary, romance, ya, youngadult
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    Tashie Bhuiyan
    “I'm not a bad person for wanting. But I feel like I am.”
    ― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You
    tags: coming-of-age, contemporary, ya
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    Estelle Maskame
    “It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.”
    ― Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
    tags: contemporary, novel, romance, teen, young-adult
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  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
    "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
    "Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
    "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
    "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: six-of-crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #25
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia
    650 likes



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