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#1

“When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

tags: anger, emotion, feeling, heartbreak, love

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#2

“She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.

And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.”
― Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po

tags: emotion, feeling, ineffable, language, vastness, words

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#3

“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: fear, feeling, pain

222 likes

#4

“Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: feeling, hate, john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars

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#5

“Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: feeling, relativity, time, waiting

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#6

“No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time.
But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed,
then it might be a good chance for you…
to be a better man.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

tags: better, chance, deed, feeling, good, life, man, mystery, secret, time

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#7

“I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

tags: feel, feeling, myself, tired

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#8

“Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.

Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation.

Suddenly, you know you are alive.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: air, alive, breeze, crisp, drunk, drunken, exultation, feeling, feeling-alive, freedom, fresh, freshness, headiness, heady, invigorating, life, pleasure, sensation, uplifted, uplifting, vigor, wind, windy

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#9

“Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

tags: feeling, knowing

118 likes

#10

“I like the feeling that anything, anything, could happen.”
― Marsha Qualey, Just Like That

tags: feeling

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#11

“Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone.
When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none,
or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: fear, feeling

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#12

“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: alone, art, author, blessed, boredom, company, contemplate, contentment, creativity, curse, good-company, growth, hard-work, imagination, independent, loneliness, perseverance, reflection, self-sufficient, solitude, time, writer

346 likes

#13

“They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't actually exist while they're working. Workers are just tools who aren't supposed to have feelings or personalities. You don't become human until your shift is over. Until then, we're all just zombies. We're dead to the world: infected people who need to be avoided, unless, of course, someone needs to know where the paintbrushes are located.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

tags: avoid, avoided, dead, dead-people, dead-to-the-world, excuse-me, exist, existence, feel, feeling, feelings, feels, human, human-nature, humanity, humans, infected, infected-people, infection, infectious, infectious-diseases, jordan, located, location, name, name-tag, names, nametag, need, over, paint-brush, paintbrushes, people, people-suck, personalities, personality, sales, salesman, salesmen, shift, supposed-to, tool, tools, until-then, work, work-ethic, working, works, world, zombie, zombie-apocalypse, zombies, zompoc

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#14

“If you love
someone, tell them.”
― Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect

tags: express, feeling, love, tell

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#15

“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: affection, equality, love, relationships

509 likes

#16

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#17

“Sometimes it seems so easy to make people happy that I wonder why I don't do it more often.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree

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#18

“Things don't always change with a bang. Sometimes they change so gradually that you can't clearly pinpoint the last moment they were truly the same.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree

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#19

“أيها الولد، العلم بلا عمل جنون، والعمل بغير علم لا يكون، وإذا لم تعمل اليوم، ولم تدارك الأيام الماضية، تقول غدا يوم القيامة، فارجعنا نعمل صالحا، فيقال: يا أحمق أنت من هناك تجيء.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, أيها الولد

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#20

“I don't believe that anyone who is a legitimately interesting person can be popular as a teenager," Mel went on. "Or ever, maybe. Popularity rewards the uninteresting.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

tags: popularity

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#21

“The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are always going to be people who want to stop you from doing your art. But this usually says more about them and their issues than it does about you and your art. Trust me.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

tags: art, artist, issues

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#22

“I mean, I ignore plenty of stuff, like school spirit days and the dirty looks I get from the Detentionheads while I try to slink through the halls unnoticed. But there's something about telling other people what to ignore that just doesn't work for me. Especially things we shouldn't be ignoring.

Hear that girl in your class is being abused by her stepfather and had to go to the clinic? Hear she's bringing her mother's pills to school and selling them to pay for it? Ignore. Ignore. Ignore. Mind your own business. Don't make waves. Fly under the radar. It's just one of those things, Vera.

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong in our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

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#23

“Look at that, Vera.”
I tilt my head back and see a sky full of stars.
“Can you tell which one is me?” he asks.
I point to the brightest one.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

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#24

“I forgot all about him and lost myself in the story.That's what I love about films and good books- you can climb right into them and be there. I just hate it when I'm doing that, and then somebody butts in and messes with my concentration.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

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#25

“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

1459 likes

#26

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

3117 likes

#27

“If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

tags: sweet-talk

1205 likes

#28

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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#29

“There's this ayah from the Quran that my dad always quotes when he sees something bad on TV. A fire or a flood or a bombing. "Whoever kills one person, it is as if he has killed all of mankind... And whoever saves one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind." When I was a little kid, that always made me feel better. Because no matter how bad things get there are always people who rush in to help. And according to my dad they are blessed.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal

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#30

“I can’t imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla.
Not that Josh would ever fall for me.
But I wouldn’t want to ruin any chance.
Even though I don’t have a chance.
But just in case I do.
Even though I don’t.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

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