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    Rick Riordan
    “We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.” Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall. “As long as we’re together,” she said.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena Excerpt
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    Lorrie Moore
    “A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
    ― Lorrie Moore
    tags: novels, short-stories, writing
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    David Sedaris
    “A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
    ― David Sedaris
    tags: reading, self-awareness, short-stories, writing
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Clark Zlotchew
    “Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
    ― Clark Zlotchew
    tags: 1950s, adolescent-angst, adventure, cuba, deep-south, havana, high-seas, homophobia, love, navy, old-days, political-intrigue, prostitution, racism, rite-of-passage, savannah, segregation, sex, sexism, ships, short-stories, short-story-collection, stories, unrequited-love
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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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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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Julianne Donaldson
    “When I look into your eyes, I lose all sense of time and place. Reason robbed, clear thought erased, I am lost in the paradise I find within your gaze.”
    ― Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke
    tags: philip
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    Annie Dalton
    “You have no cause of fear... Plauge is sent to punish sinners in the cities, not God-fearing folk such as we.”
    ― Annie Dalton, Isabel: Taking Wing
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    Alice Oseman
    “I hate the phone. It is the worst invention in the history of the world, because if you don’t talk, nothing happens. You can’t get by with simply listening and nodding your head in all the right places. You have to talk. You have no option. It takes away my freedom of nonspeech.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
    tags: anxiety, phone, social-anxiety
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    Alice Oseman
    “I think it's better to just read and not study books.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “Happiness," he says, "is the price of profound thought."
    "Who's that quote from?" I ask.
    He winks. "Me.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “You know, if you want to be happier, you have to try. You have to put in the effort. Your problem is that you don’t try.” I do try. I have tried. I have tried for sixteen years.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “I think you should know that I make up a lot of stuff in my head and then get sad about it.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “I don't know why I made all that fuss the other day. No that's a lie. I do know why. It's because I'm an idiot.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “If this is the best time of my life, I might as well end it immediately.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “I really don’t do anything unless I actually want to do it. And most of the time I don’t want to do anything at all.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “What can I say? People aren’t observant. People don’t question stuff like this. They never think twice about déjà vu when there could be a glitch in the Matrix. They walk past tramps in the streets without even glancing at their misfortune. They don’t psychoanalyse the creators of slasher-horrors when they’re probably all psychopaths.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “Split between the green and the blue, there is an indefinable beauty that people call humanity.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “Nice people are vulnerable because they don’t know how to be mean.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
    tags: contemporary, young-adult
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    Alice Oseman
    “I'm a little bit in love with everyone I meet.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
    tags: beautiful-quote
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    Alice Oseman
    “Sometimes I wish I were a normal human being. But I can't. I'm not. No matter how hard I try.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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    Alice Oseman
    “Happiness,” he says, “is the price of profound thought.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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  • #30
    Alice Oseman
    “Maybe you are a manically depressed psychopath.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Solitaire
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