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#1

“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

5353 likes

#2

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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#3

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: love

11880 likes

#4

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

9448 likes

#6

“But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.”
― Chris Colfer

tags: chris-colfer, hurdles, inspirational-attitude, life-lesson

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#7

“If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.”
― Chris Colfer

tags: chris-colfer

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#7

“Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance”
― Chris Colfer

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#9

“My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

tags: hope

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#10

“Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

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#11

“I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.”
― Chris Colfer

tags: amazing, idol, inspirational, so-true

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#12

“I'm allergic to stupidity.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

tags: stupid-people, stupidity

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#13

“High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

tags: high-school, humor, sarcasm

248 likes

#14

“A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.”
― Chris Colfer

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#15

“The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

427 likes

#16

“To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.”
― Chris Colfer

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#17

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

8111 likes

#18

“If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.”
― Colleen Hoover

1749 likes

#19

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

1783 likes

#20

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

1432 likes

#21

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

1224 likes

#22

“CUSTOMER: I’m always on night shift at work.
BOOKSELLER (jokingly): Is that why you’re buying so many vampire novels?
CUSTOMER (seriously): You can never be too prepared.”
― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

tags: customers, joke, vampires, wierd

82 likes

#23

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

4691 likes

#24

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: inside, looks, people, true-nature

1659 likes

#25

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books, bookworms, love-for-books

1968 likes

#26

“Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: alternate-memories, memory

569 likes

#27

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

5868 likes

#28

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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#29