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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Louise O'Neill
    “I don’t know how people pretend to be something they’re not; it takes so much effort. That was always my problem, ever since I was your age. I didn’t care about what people thought of me. I only wanted to be true to myself.”
    ― Louise O'Neill, The Surface Breaks
    tags: be-yourself, stay-true-to-who-you-are
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    Louise O'Neill
    “They always fall asleep afterwards; it’s pathetic how little stamina they have. You didn’t miss much with this one, I can assure you.”

    Miss much? What is she talking about?

    “He was adequate,” Flora amends. “Concerned with his own pleasure, and annoyed I didn’t seem to think it all a great honour. Male fragility can be exhausting at times, can it not?”
    ― Louise O'Neill, The Surface Breaks
    tags: egotistical-men
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    Bram Stoker
    “Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Bram Stoker
    “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: knowledge, memory
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe, Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #8
    Simone St. James
    “For the odd girls, the nerdy girls, and the murderinos. This one is yours.”
    ― Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel
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    Simone St. James
    “Books were her salvation. As a child, she’d had a shelf of childhood favorites that she loved enough to read over and over again. But after, during the hospital stay and the long voyage and the cold days in Idlewild’s dreary hallways, books became more than mere stories. They were her lifeline, the pages as essential to her as breathing.”
    ― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls
    tags: books
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
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    Alice Hoffman
    “If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend
    2020 likes

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    Adrienne Rich
    “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
    tags: critical-thinking, empowerment, feminism, independent-thought, responsibility, self-determination, self-respect, women
    605 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Jim Morrison
    “Where's your will to be weird?”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: individuality, musicians, weirdness, wierd
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
    tags: force, human-nature, individuality, liberty, strength, uniqueness
    1177 likes

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    Peter V. Brett
    “Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.”
    ― Peter V. Brett, The Warded Man
    tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality
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    Andy Warhol
    “You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: creativity, individuality, originality, warhol
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    “You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.”
    ― Jonathan Davis
    tags: conformity, individuality
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  • #21
    Vincent O'Sullivan
    “If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you”
    ― Vincent O'Sullivan, The next room
    tags: difference, individuality, normal
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    Alice Hoffman
    “I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Anything whole can be broken,” Isabelle told her. “And anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic
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    Alice Hoffman
    “What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic
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    Alice Hoffman
    “odds don’t matter. The natural world defies statistics.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Anything whole can be broken, and anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Love had to happen without any certainty, the ultimate leap of faith.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic
    tags: love
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    Meg Cabot
    “I don’t know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don’t. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.”
    ― Meg Cabot, Haunted
    15 likes



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