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“Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: change, jem

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“It's only possible to provide help when it's asked for. The rest of the time, all you can give is love.”
― Jess Lourey

tags: helping-others, love

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“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: sacrifice

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#4

“Beware the soft-spoken when secrets are kept, for they hear what the thunderers do not.”
― Michael Alan Peck, The Journeyman

tags: secrets

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#5

“I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me”
― Donald Miller

tags: blue-like-jazz, donald-miller, god

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#6

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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“Job moans that it is wanton cruelty that suffering people, brutalized or in mourning, should have to relive their horrors in dreams. In fact, why should any of us, in seeking rest, be met with nightmares?”
― Jennifer Hecht, Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

tags: dreams-nightmares

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“Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.”
― Allen Zadoff

tags: boy-nobody, grief

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#9

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

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#10

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom

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#11

“You mean you don't wear thongs?" I ask, feigning exasperation. "Hell no! I'd be digging that thing out of my ass all night long.”
― K.L. Grayson, Where We Belong

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#12

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: simon

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#13

“It was one of those days in August where the road looks like an illusion, melting and changing shapes.”
― Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans

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#14

“suddenly something cold hits my nose. The next thing I know snowflakes are falling. Like tender white kisses gifted onto such a hostile landscape. They’re so eerie and whimsical, I almost laugh at the irony.”
― Anonymous

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“I like to think we’re all born to do good, but dark things sometimes get in the way.”
― Anonymous

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#16

“In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,”
― Margery Allingham, The Tiger In The Smoke

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#17

“Albert Campion: 'I’m serious!'
Lugg: 'That’s unhealthy in itself.”
― Margery Allingham, Mystery Mile

tags: albert-campion, humor, margery-allingham, seriousness

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#18

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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#19

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#20

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#21

“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

tags: autism, bravery, inspirational

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“Monsters are bad things, but monsters that do not walk and talk like monsters are the worst.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

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“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

tags: euphemism, evil, humor, political-correctness

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“People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

tags: every-man

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#24

“Sometimes you can love something not because you instinctively connect with it but because another person does, and keeping their things in your heart takes you back to them.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

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#25

“So, why do you write these strong female characters?

Because you’re still asking me that question."

[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]”
― Joss Whedon

tags: femininism, progress, understanding

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#26

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

tags: happiness, love

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“He was no longer, at least in his mind, the most wanted man in America. He was an analyst, a seer, a prognosticator going over his reams of data, moving their pieces, twisting them, testing them, discounting some, fleshing out others, slowly transforming disjointed intelligence into something that made sense.”
― David Baldacci, The Escape

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“They both looked at me. The full force of the woman-glares made my dick try to invert.”
― S.M. Reine, Silver Bullet

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