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    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no better distraction in this world than losing oneself in books for awhile.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold
    tags: magnus-bane
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    Cassandra Clare
    “The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold
    tags: fiction, inspirational, stories
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Do not let those who cannot see the truth tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold
    tags: chain-gold, inspirational, inspiring, love, shadowhunters
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I am a Herondale. We love but once."
    "That is only a story."
    "Haven't you heard?" James said bitterly. "All the stories are true.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold
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    Cassandra Clare
    “We don’t always love people who deserve it.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold
    tags: chog, thomas-lightwood, tlh
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: kindness
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “It was precisely these scenes he missed the most from his own life with Willem, the forgettable, in-between moments in which nothing seemed to be happening but whose absence was singularly unfillable.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: life
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “We are all someone's monster.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: matthias
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I'd wake up every morning and think, 'This will end in flames.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
    tags: baz, simon-snow, tyrannus-basilton-grimm-pitch
    803 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind
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    James Baldwin
    “You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: home
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    James Baldwin
    “Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: death, lessons, loneliness, love, survival
    435 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: freedom
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    James Baldwin
    “With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
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    James Baldwin
    “Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: coward, fool, lives, people, truth-telling
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    James Baldwin
    “I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: inner-struggle
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    Amanda Foody
    “You want to know something funny?' he asked. "In a choice between staying here or going home, I'd still choose here. With you.”
    ― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains
    tags: alistair-lowe, all-of-us-villains
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  • #28
    “Monsters couldn’t harm you if you were a monster, too.”
    ― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains
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    Amanda Foody
    “Survival could make villains of any of us.”
    ― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains
    tags: survive, villains
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    Amanda Foody
    “Of course what happens to you matters. Because it matters to you. Because you feel something, right now. That's enough, isn't it? Doesn't that make it mean something?”
    ― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise
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