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    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Betty Smith
    “Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Betty Smith
    “If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Betty Smith
    “A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.

    A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: book, writing
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: perspective, positive-attitude
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: important, people, rich, self-care, truth
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Markus Zusak
    “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: friendship, snow
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    Markus Zusak
    “Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: heart, mortality
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind.

    So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and all of you , when you live with me as surely as I live with myself.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “There is a fool you feel when somebody is saying they are sorry for doing something to you. It is worse than if you had done something yourself. So you are having the worst of it twice, start and finish.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “... the nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: reading
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: gender-stereotypes, humor, on-fiction
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien
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  • #23
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: humanity, kindness, relationships
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: fear-unknown
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  • #30
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
    You forget some things, dont you?
    Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: life, memory
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