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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: feminism, inspirational, jo-march, life, little-women
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    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: words
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    M.L. Rio
    “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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    M.L. Rio
    “How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: decisions
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    M.L. Rio
    “Which of us could say we were more sinned against than sinning? We were so easily manipulated - confusion made a masterpiece of us.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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    M.L. Rio
    “Hatred is the sincerest form of flattery.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: flattery, hate
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    M.L. Rio
    “I don't know, it's like I look at you and suddenly the sonnets makes sense. The good ones, anyway.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: mystery
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    M.L. Rio
    “Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
    The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: literary-fiction, mystery, mystery-thriller, thriller
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    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history
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    Donna Tartt
    “It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Donna Tartt
    “But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
    Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Donna Tartt
    “I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Donna Tartt
    “For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Donna Tartt
    “There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Donna Tartt
    “Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy, hurt, mean, meanness
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.”
    ― Louisa Alcott, Little Women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: genius, little-women, louisa-may-alcott, talent
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Markus Zusak
    “One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: writing-advice
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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