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#1

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

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#2

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth

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#3

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#4

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: sadness

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#5

“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: inspirational, mistakes

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#6

“You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: anne-of-green-gables, rachel-lynde

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#7

“Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: l-m-montgomery, misunderstanding

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#8

“Wait, I thought I was your dream guy,' Peter says. Not to me, to Kitty. He knows he's not my dream guy. My dream guy is Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Handsome, loyal, smart in school.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

tags: dream-guy, lara-jean-song-covey, peter-kavinsky

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#9

“It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

tags: l-m-montgomery

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#10

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

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#11

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: francois-rabelais, last-words

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#12

“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: john-green, last-words, looking-for-alaska

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#13

“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: looking-for-alaska

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#14

“That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska

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#15

“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska, pudge

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#16

“We all use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green

tags: looking-for-alaska

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#17

“I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#18

“I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: alaska, alaska-young, fiction, looking-for-alaska, miles

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#19

“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
― John Green

tags: looking-for-alaska

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#20

“Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.
'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked.
She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, 'Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska

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#21

“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska

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#22

“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”
― John Green

tags: looking-for-alaska

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#23

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
― John Green

tags: looking-for-alaska

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#24

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: compassion, life, suffering

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#25

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#26

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: johngreen, lookingforalaska

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#27

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

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#28

“What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: funny, humor

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#29

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#30

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska

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