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  • #1
    T. Kingfisher
    “Look, if you can't laugh about the homicidal fits that make you a menace to society, what's even the point?”
    ― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic
    tags: romance
    433 likes

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    Alberto Caeiro
    “I’d like to have enough time and quiet
    To think about absolutely nothing,
    To not ever feel myself living,
    To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.”
    ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
    tags: clarity, existence, feeling, life, longing, meaning, others-perspective, paganism, pantheism, reality, reflection, solitude
    42 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: quotes
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  • #5
    Dean Koontz
    “Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.

    Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”
    ― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy
    tags: freedom, loneliness, peace, reflection, solitude, tranquility
    126 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: identity, life, regret
    455 likes

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    Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    “...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
    ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple Things
    tags: crying, laughter, life-lessons
    17 likes

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  • #8
    Wally Lamb
    “I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.”
    ― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone
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  • #9
    Joe Abercrombie
    “I've made peace with myself.
    Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
    Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
    tags: inner-peace, mercenary, resignation
    229 likes

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  • #10
    Emil M. Cioran
    “I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.”
    ― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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  • #12
    “All you can do, Rosemary – all any of us can do – is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.”
    ― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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  • #13
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I have never been able to talk as I think, to anyone. With most people you can only talk about ideas, not the channel through these ideas pass, the atmosphere in which they bathe, the subtle essence which escapes as one clothes them. Most of the time, I don’t feel like talking about ideas anyway. I am more interested in sensations.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three
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    Robin Hobb
    “So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day”
    ― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand
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    Robin Hobb
    “Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand
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    Criss Jami
    “When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: apologetics, character, eating, enduring, god, maturity, patience, spiritual, suffering, unpleasant, vegetables
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    Mitch Albom
    “Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: ruby-anger
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  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Alysha Speer
    “You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.”
    ― Alysha Speer
    tags: adversity, coping, drown, enduring, free, hope, life, live, surf, surfing, trials, water, wave, waves
    244 likes

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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Markus Zusak
    “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: pain, sadness, stoicism
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  • #24
    Brent Weeks
    “Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism
    tags: beauty, general-danavis, lightbringer-trilogy
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
    Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion
    tags: moving-forward, prayer
    59 likes

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  • #26
    Brent Weeks
    “A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: dark-humor, fantasy
    128 likes

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    Nikki Rowe
    “There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.”
    ― Nikki rowe
    tags: achiever, adventure, dream, dreamer, free-spirit, gypsy, moving-forward, moving-on, soul, soul-journey, wanderer, wanderess, wild-and-free, woman-quotes
    156 likes

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  • #28
    “People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful.”
    ― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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  • #29
    Hermann Hesse
    “Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: self
    502 likes

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    Hermann Hesse
    “One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: home
    662 likes



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