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Joe Pickering
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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
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Khaled Hosseini,
The Kite Runner
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“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
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Daniel Kahneman,
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
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Flora Rheta Schreiber,
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
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#4
“nostalgia was nothing more than dissatisfaction with the present. Anything looked better than now, even harder times. It was a fantasy that people accept.”
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V.C. Andrews,
Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth
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#5
“Maybe. Maybe there was a way. And then things could be so good.
My brain was a hope-making machine.”
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Ransom Riggs,
A Map of Days
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#6
“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”
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Anthony Doerr,
All the Light We Cannot See
334 likes
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#7
“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
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Robert Jordan,
The Eye of the World
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#8
“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
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Dan Brown,
Inferno
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755 likes
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#9
“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
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Dan Brown,
Angels & Demons
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#10
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
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Ransom Riggs,
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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#11
“There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”
―
Hans Rosling,
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
187 likes
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#12
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
―
Rick Riordan,
The Lightning Thief
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#13
“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
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Rick Riordan,
The Lightning Thief
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#14
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
―
Stephen King,
Different Seasons
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#15
“Does truth have a moral?”
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Rick Riordan,
The Sea of Monsters
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truth
688 likes
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#16
“Most men cannot write good sex.”
―
John Grisham
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humor
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