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    Anton Chekhov
    “I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: anton-chekhov
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    Anton Chekhov
    “It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.”
    ― Anton Chekhov, The Shooting Party
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    Neil Gaiman
    “She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

    She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
    tags: inspirational, poetry
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: darkness, f-scott-fitzgerald, mgg, the-great-gatsby
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    Haruki Murakami
    “The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface: the skin.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: darkness, deep, earth, jellyfish, surfaces
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: child, criticism, memory, verbal-abuse, words
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: memories
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    Grant Morrison
    “Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum
    tags: batman, joker, madness
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    Grant Morrison
    “Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
    tags: batman, children, dreams
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    George Eliot
    “Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'

    I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: love, romance
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
    tags: gogol, heroes, laughter, life, nikolai, tears
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Drowning people
    Sometimes die
    Fighting their rescuers.”
    ― Octavia Butler
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    Ocean Vuong
    “In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: living-in-the-present, looking
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Stars. Or rather, the drains of heaven – waiting. Little holes. Little centuries opening just enough for us to slip through.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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    Ocean Vuong
    “I hold the gun & wonder if an entry wound in the night would make a hole wide as morning”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Sometimes I feel like an ampersand. I wake up waiting for the crush. Maybe the body is the only question an answer can’t extinguish. How many kisses have we crushed to our lips in prayer—only to pick up the pieces?”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Memory erases into music”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
    tags: music, poetry
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Why do all my books leave me empty-handed?”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
    tags: books, poetry
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: first-sentence
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    Robin Sloan
    “He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.”
    ― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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    Robin Sloan
    “All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.”
    ― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
    tags: secrets
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    Robin Sloan
    “Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and digested. Thus, the problem was ongoing. Thus, the problem was perhaps the point.”
    ― Robin Sloan, Sourdough
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    Anton Chekhov
    “There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”
    ― Anton Pavlovič Čechov
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend...”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
    tags: permanence, stars
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: courage, life, pain, strength, suffering
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Villette
    tags: meaning, silence
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