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#1

“Real, but sometimes beautiful.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

tags: new-york-city

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#2

“And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

tags: dragons, friendship-and-love

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#3

“It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other and never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: high-school

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#4

“Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine.”
― L.M. Montgomery

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#5

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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#6

“No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

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#7

“Weißt du eigentlich, dass die besten zwei Sekunden in meinem Leben die sind, die du brauchst um in mein Zimmer gestürmt zu kommen und mir fünf Fragen hintereinander zu stellen, nur um anschließend gleich wieder zu verschwinden, weil dir plötzlich eingefallen ist, dass du vergessen hast, Fork seinen Hundeknochen zu geben?”
― Lilly Lindner, Was fehlt, wenn ich verschwunden bin

tags: sister-love

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#8

“„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“
She smiles as he laughs.
And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: flirtation

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#9

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: death, inspirational, voice

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#10

“Wortgewalt bedeutet, dass du gewaltige Gefühle in deinen sanftmütigen Worten verpacken kannst, und gleichzeitig bedeutet es, dass du mit deinen Worten gewaltige Gefühle auslösen kannst.”
― Lilly Lindner, Was fehlt, wenn ich verschwunden bin

tags: language

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#12

“Vielleicht, ganz vielleicht wird die Luft eines Tages nach regennassen Büchern riechen. Es wird ein schöner Regen sein. Und ein wundersamer Augenblick. Und wir, wir werden dastehen und den Worten dabei zusehen, wie sie davonschwimmen in einem Meer voller Geschichten, in dem jede Wahrheit verborgen liegt.”
― Lilly Lindner, Winterwassertief

tags: rain, words

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#13

“Never talk to them when they’re human, or they’ll trick you. You’ll get confused and sympathetic. That was what his mom always said. She was probably right. Last time he talked to a werewolf, he ended up dating her.”
― S.M. Reine, Long Night Moon

tags: dating, werewolves

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#13

“Walking into parties always gives me a crampy feeling at the bottom of my stomach. Its a good feeling though: The feeling of knowing anything can happen. Most of the time nothing does, of course. Most of the time one night blends into the next, and weeks blend into weeks, and months into other months. And sooner or later we die.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: party-life, youth

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#14

“So what, you assumed you’d show up before the dance and I’d magically be ready to go? I need warning to get beautiful.”
― S.M. Reine, Long Night Moon

tags: beauty, dance

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#15

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

tags: inspirational, love, motivational, self-empowerment, self-esteem, self-realization, spiritual, truth

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#16

“Du glaubst, es ging mir um die Unsterblichkeit?” Ein raspelndes Kichern. “Darauf seid allein ihr Menschen so versessen. Keine andere Kreatur lebt in solcher Furcht vor ihrer eigenen Vergänglichkeit.”
― Kai Meyer, Dschinnland

tags: immortality

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#17

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

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#18

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings

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#19

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

tags: life, world

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#20

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”
― Aljean Harmetz, Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

tags: embellishment, lies, lying, writers, writing

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#21

“Whilst I read I am a poet. I am inspired with good feelings—feelings that create perhaps a more permanent good in me than all the everyday preachments in the world; it counteracts the dross which one gives on the everyday concerns of life, and tells us there is something yet in the world to aspire to—something by which succeeding ages may be made happy and perhaps better.”
― Fanny Imlay Godwin

tags: inspirational, reading

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#22

“Lies Bücher. So einfach ist das. Ein Buch ist die einzige wirkliche Flucht aus dieser gefallenen Welt.
Außer dem Tod.”
― J.R. Moehringer, Sutton

tags: escapism

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#23

“I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: voice

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#24

“Da ich nun einmal nicht imstande war, die Menschen vernünftiger zu machen, war ich lieber fern von ihnen glücklich.”
― Voltaire

tags: solitude

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#25

“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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#26

“Getting shot was an experience that Elise ranked on the “unpleasantness” scale right around “trying to survive a week without coffee.”
― S.M. Reine, Sacrificed in Shadow

tags: coffee

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#27

“They were twin beasts in the night, swift and sleek and growling. With her body arched over the moonlight-soaked motorcycle, her thighs welded to metal and leather, Elise felt like she and the bike had become a single animal—another member of Rylie’s pack, restricted only to where the wheels could take her.”
― S.M. Reine, Sacrificed in Shadow

tags: motorbike, werewolf

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#28

“Ich glaube, daß die Umstände des Lebens, so zufällig wie sie sind, uns weniger dauerhafte Wahrheiten lehren als die Fiktionen, die sich auf diese Wahrheiten gründen.”
― Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

tags: fiction, life-lessons

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#29

“Wenn man mit dem falschen Menschen zusammen ist, ist man einsamer, als wenn man allein ist. Oder genauso einsam, nur auf eine andere Art und Weise.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello

tags: loneliness, relationships

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#30

“Did your phone just play ‘You Are My Sunshine’?” he asked.
“Uh-huh. It’s a personalized ring tone. It’s affirming.”
He laughed, until the dignified raising of her eyebrows told him she was serious.
“Affirmations are good for your self-esteem,” she told him. “Every time my phone tells me I’m its sunshine, it makes me feel good.”
― Abby Gaines, Married by Mistake

tags: affirmations, humor

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