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    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
    tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    William Shakespeare
    “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: good-deeds, goodness, humanity, inspirational, life, light, world
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: goodness, love
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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
    5349 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
    tags: haunting, life, mind, stories, youth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: stories
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    Margaret Atwood
    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
    We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: freedom, stories
    1787 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: stories, sylvia-plath
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    John Green
    “You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
    ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
    tags: aza-holmes, john-green, life, page-257, stories, turtles-all-the-way-down
    1054 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, stories
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    Muriel Rukeyser
    “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
    The world would split open.”
    ― Muriel Rukeyser
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth, women
    320 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel
    3715 likes

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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
    3508 likes

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  • #18
    Jude Deveraux
    “My soul will find yours.”
    ― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor
    3145 likes



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