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#1

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

#2

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

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#3

“everybody loves me because i'm good at making people feel good. i'm good at making people feel good because i have had a lot of practice on myself”
― Sabrina Benaim

tags: depression, happiness, mental-health, poetry

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#4

“i am best prepared for the worst case scenario. the best case scenario scares me. flight response. my mother tells me i am a bird. when she says i am a bird, she means the whole world is my cage.”
― Sabrina Benaim, Depression & Other Magic Tricks

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#5

“I think about a deserted chessboard. Only the white king on it, standing on the home square. Alone, untethered, safe from threats. Free to roam.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

tags: chess, chess-game

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#6

“He told me once that sometimes, with some people, it's not about winning or losing, That with some people, it's just about playing. Though for the longest time, I didn't really believe him.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

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#7

“Love is not supposed to be beautiful. It’s supposed to be a raw, gritty struggle that forces you to face the most vulnerable parts of yourself, so that when the good times come, you can savor and enjoy them, fully appreciate what they’re worth. Otherwise, you take it all for granted.”
― S.T. Abby, Mindf*ck Series

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#8

“To defeat a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous.
To love a monster, you have to share your soul.”
― S.T. Abby, Mindf*ck Series

tags: crime, fucked, love, police, profiler

55 likes

#9

“Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts”
― Molly Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

tags: advice, graphic-novel, life, young-adult

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#10

“But truly, women are amazing. Think about it this way: a woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male’s contribution to life, it’s kind of embarrassing, really.”
― Jim Gaffigan, Dad Is Fat

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#11

“I didn’t know golden showers are your jam. I am happy to accommodate this.” “Chase!” she shrieked. “What? It’d save water. I’m just being an environmentalist.” Somehow I thought Greta Thunberg still wouldn’t approve.”
― L.J. Shen, The Devil Wears Black

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#12

“Cross my heart and hope to die." He put a hand on his chest mockingly.

"At least our hopes are aligned.”
― L.J. Shen, The Devil Wears Black

tags: chase, hopes, maddie

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#13

“It’s hard to arrest a man who is entirely fictional, isn’t it?”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

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#14

“Something terrible has happened in this house.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

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#15

“Hello, pickle!” her dad said loudly as Pip and Cara made their way downstairs. “Lauren and I have decided that I should come to your kilometer party too.” “Calamity, Dad. And over my dead brain cells.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

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#16

“Because half less of a bad thing meant there was room for half good.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

tags: a-good-girls-guide-to-murder

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#17

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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#18

“Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”
― Fredriik Backman

tags: a-man-called-otto

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#19

“The same people that outlawed the practice of Native American Medicine (without a colonizer centric degree), outlawed the traditional practice of healing those that are hurt/ill without expecting anything in return. Free healthcare. The basis of community.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: colonization, community, healing, healthcare, native-american

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#20

“We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

tags: humor

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#21

“I don’t aspire to be the type of person who apologizes so much that they're good at it.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

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#22

“You’re my personal hell, Red.” He gave my hair another sharp tug. “And God help me, I don’t want to fucking leave.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

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#23

“Even at our worst, both drowning in chaos, together, we’re our best.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

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#24

“We're going to die by dick, Ember. our tombstone will say: 'Here lies that one bitch who died from getting good dick' and that's just not going to look great in the afterlife.”
― Amelia Hutchins, Ruins of Chaos

tags: lot9r

7 likes

#25

“It isn’t that I don’t appreciate the wooing,” I said, to soothe his shock. “Only that maybe it’s working too well.”
― Kathryn Moon, A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor

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#26

“A taste of sweet was better than a lifetime of bitter regret.”
― Maya Banks, Seduction of a Highland Lass

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#27

“Impossible to be alone inside something living & listening. ”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: listening, living, love, together, unity

223 likes

#28

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

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#29

“She is so good at predicting what will happen in books, so bad at predicting what will happen in life. That is why she has always preferred books - because to be alive is so much harder.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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#30

“She doesn’t see the point in staying alive only to do all the same things that made her want to die.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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