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#1

“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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#2

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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#3

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: love

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#4

“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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#5

“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: heroes

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#6

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: john-green, love, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#7

“He kissed her, and she glowed with that feeling. The one with wings. “You bring the rain down on them, Pip.” “I will.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

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#8

“If music stops, and art ceases, and beauty fades, what have we then?”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

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#9

“Piggyback.” “Excuse me?” “You heard me.” “Like that movie—” “Shut up.” “Churlish.” “Arrogant.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

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#9

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: inspirational, love

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#11

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#12

“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
― Sally Rooney , Normal People

tags: depressing

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#13

“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#14

“If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#15

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#16

“People are a lot more knowable than they think they are.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: people, perception

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#17

“I don't know what's wrong with me, says Marianne. I don't know why I can't be like normal people.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#18

“It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: dreaming, dreams, goals, impossible

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#19

“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: dreams, fireflys, nightmare, strenghth

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#20

“And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, young-adult

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#21

“He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: laini-taylor, read, reading, strange-the-dreamer

496 likes

#22

“The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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#23

“There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: heartache, love, moon, unrequited-love

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#24

“Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn't like being locked away.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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#25

“Once upon a time there was a silence that dreamed of becoming a song, and then I found you, and now everything is music.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

tags: romance, ya

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#26

“There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else. And if you choose the dream, if you keep on going, then you can never quit, because it's all you are.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

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#27

“I would have chosen you, if they had let me choose.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

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#28

“People are our safe places. I have one: a person who’s a home and a world to me.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

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#29

“Once upon a time, a sister made a vow she didn't know how to break, and it broke her instead.

Once upon a time, a girl did the impossible, but she did it just a little too late.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

tags: dream, girl, love, sisterhood, sisters, the-impossible

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#30

“Can we leave the past behind us?"

Could they? The question was everything.

"That's an excellent place for the past," said Suheyla. "If you don't leave it there, it clutters everything up and you just keep tripping over it.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

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