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#1

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: greed, wisdom

1153 likes

#2

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars

tags: destiny, stars

259 likes

#3

“Happiness is a talent.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress

tags: happiness

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#4

“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: dreams, fireflys, nightmare, strenghth

701 likes

#5

“He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: fighter, life, survivor

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#6

“Sometimes a moment is so remarkable that it carves out a space in time and spins there, while the world rushes on around it. This was one such.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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#7

“As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: books, fairy-tales, reality, stories

192 likes

#8

“The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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#9

“Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: anger, fantasy, hate, life, quotes, vengeance

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#10

“shrestha (SHRES·thuh) noun When a dream comes true—but not for the dreamer. Archaic;”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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#11

“Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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#12

“Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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#13

“Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: friendship, love, pain, suffering

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#14

“Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn't like being locked away.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

217 likes

#15

“Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

tags: force, love

285 likes

#16

“I know love is fragile. And loving someone like you is near impossible. Like holding something shattered through a raging sandstorm. If you want her to love you, shelter her from that storm…And make certain that storm isn’t you.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

tags: jalal, khalid, love, shahrzad

181 likes

#17

“The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

tags: khalid, rose-and-the-dagger, shahrzad

114 likes

#18

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45245 likes

#19

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: desires, fun, want

2332 likes

#20

“Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: dreams, meditation, sleep

198 likes

#21

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: depression, pain

2789 likes

#22

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: happiness

3415 likes

#23

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

tags: love, soul, stars

4606 likes

#24

“She had still been learning how to live with the hard truth that the most interesting parts of her thoughts usually got left behind when she tried to put them into words.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

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#25

“I was looking for a miracle, but I got a story instead, and sometimes those are the same thing.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

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#26

“We almost always can point to that hundredth blow, but we don't always mark the ninety-nine other things that happen before we change.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

tags: change, time

91 likes

#27

“By relegating the things we fear and don't understand to religion, and the things we understand and control to science, we rob science of its artistry and religion of its mutability.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

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#28

“It is, after all, not the tasks people do but the things they do around the edges of them that reveal who they are.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

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#29

“It’s an enormous sky out there with a lot of stars above it and a lot of folks underneath it, and all of us, stars and human, are missing someone in the dark.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

67 likes

#30

“But we all have darkness inside us. It is just a question of how much of us is light as well.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

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