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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: loneliness, misattributed
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    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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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: happiness, inspiration, life
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
    tags: breakfast-of-champions, girls, kurt-vonnegut, machines, manipulation, thinking, women
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
    tags: beautiful, body, breakfast-of-champions, chemicals, human, kurt-vonnegut, life, people, ugly
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
    tags: breakfast-of-champions, destruction, earth, kurt-vonnegut, lousy, manufactured, planet, truth, world
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows
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    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
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Holly Black
    “Every hero is the villain of his own story.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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    Holly Black
    “Death’s favorites don’t die.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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    Holly Black
    “If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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    Holly Black
    “Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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    Holly Black
    “We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
    tags: becoming, fear, safety
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    Holly Black
    “Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
    tags: monsters, pretty-things
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    Holly Black
    “I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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    Holly Black
    “You are more dangerous than daybreak.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
    tags: gavriel, tana
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    Holly Black
    “They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
    tags: beautiful, beauty, cold, different, strange, strength, strong, unique, vampire
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    Holly Black
    “But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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    Holly Black
    “Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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    Holly Black
    “Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
    tags: gavriel, tana
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    Holly Black
    “I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
    tags: bad-day, root-beer
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    Holly Black
    “Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”
    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
    tags: death
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