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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: books
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    tags: journey-through-life, what-is-love
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head."
    But I am in my head, Sam thought.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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    David Eagleman
    “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
    ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
    tags: death, existentialism, human-condition, life, memory
    663 likes

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  • #6
    Taylor Rhodes
    “blessed be
    she
    who is
    both
    furious
    and
    magnificent”
    ― Taylor Rhodes, calloused: a field journal
    tags: feminism, human-condition, nonfiction, strong-women, womanhood, women-s-strength
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  • #7
    Isaac Asimov
    “It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: human-condition
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    Virginia Woolf
    “It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: art, human-condition
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  • #9
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker, six-of-crows
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  • #11
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “I thought you were worried I was going to die," Sam said.
    "No. You'll never die. And if you ever died, I'd just start the game again," Sadie said.
    "Sam's dead. Put another quarter in the machine."
    "Go back to the save point. Keep playing, and we'll win eventually.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    tags: friendship-and-love, one-up, video-game-reference
    18 likes

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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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  • #17
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
    22970 likes

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    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: books-reading
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: books, bookstore, towns
    5388 likes

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  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Even nothing cannot last forever.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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  • #27
    Ally Condie
    “Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: childhood, friendship, growing-up
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  • #28
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: childhood, growing-up, innocence
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  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: dance, dancing, music
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  • #30
    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: music, power-of-music
    2847 likes



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