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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: honesty
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: books-reading
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    “I live in two worlds; one is a world of books”
    ― Rory Gilmore
    tags: gilmore-girls
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
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    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness, laughter, smiles
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    Jane Austen
    “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance
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    Jane Austen
    “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
    ― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: pride-and-prejudice
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    Jennifer Niven
    “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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    Jennifer Niven
    “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: all-the-bright-places, happiness, inspiration, life
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    Jennifer Niven
    “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: all-the-bright-places, jennifer-niven
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    Jennifer Niven
    “I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you’re standing next to the right person.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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    Jennifer Niven
    “I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: happy, love, mind, peace, relaxation, sleep, thoughts
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    Jennifer Niven
    “We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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    Jennifer Niven
    “I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can’t stop people from dying. You can’t stop them from going away. You can’t stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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  • #23
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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  • #24
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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  • #27
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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  • #28
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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  • #30
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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