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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#2

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#3

“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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#4

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#5

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#6

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#7

“I am no longer your creation, I think, words knitted in my chest.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

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#8

“Can the fool of a story also be the hero?”
― Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

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#9

“I only want you to be happy.” He says it softly, so only I can hear, then he kisses my palm, soft and sweet.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

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#10

“The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside who will tear you apart.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: cinderlla, fairy-tale, retellings, stepsister, ugly-step-sisters, wolf, wolves

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#11

“Here are the things girls die of: hunger, disease, accidents, childbirth, and violence. It takes more than heartache to kill a girl. Girls are tough as rocks.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: cinderella, death, girl-power, girls, heartache, rocks, stepsister, stepsisters

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#12

“Don’t you see? A pretty girl must please the world. But an ugly girl? She’s free to please herself.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#13

“They were not pretty, these women. Pretty did not begin to describe them.
They were shrewd. Powerful. Wily. Proud. Dangerous.
They were strong.
There were brave.
They were beautiful.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: cinderella, empowerment, stepsister, strength

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#14

“Every war is different, yet each battle is the same. The enemy is only a distraction. The thing you are fighting against, always, is yourself.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: battle, cinderella, enemy, fight, stepsister, war, yourself

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#15

“They cut away pieces of me," she whispered in the darkness. "But I handed them the knife.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#16

“Believe that you can make your way. Or don't. Either way, you are right.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: belief, believe, cinderella, hope, self-belief, stepsister, strength, way

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#17

“You terrify me, Isabelle. I've never met a girl like you. You're a fighter, fierce as hell. You never quit. You don't know how. You don't need anyone. You certainly don't need me.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: fairy-tale-retellings, ya

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#18

“The worst day above ground is better than any day under it.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#19

“Call a girl pretty once, and all she wants, forevermore, is to hear it again.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#20

“It’s good that you still cry,” Isabelle whispered to her. “It’s when you stop crying that you’re lost.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#21

“Sometimes it’s easier to say that you hate what you can’t have rather than admit how badly you want it.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#22

“Ghosts are not the dead, come back from the grave to torment the living; ghosts are already here. They live inside us, keening in the ashes of our sorrows, mired in the thick, clutching mud of our regrets.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#23

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#24

“Simple is the opposite of hard, easy is also the opposite of hard. But simple is not the same as easy. Not at all.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

tags: isabelle, smart-quotes, tavi, true

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#25

“Beauty is not always pretty.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

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#26

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: the-hunger-games

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#27

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: humor

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#28

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: truth

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#29

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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#30

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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