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#1

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#2

“Begone...what care I for your brat's warts?”
― JK Rowling

tags: weird-quotes

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#3

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#4

“Mary Katherine must never be punished. Must never be sent to bed without her dinner. Mary Katherine will never allow herself to do anything inviting punishment.”
― Shirley Jackson, WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE

tags: confusing, eerie, heartbreaking, poignant

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#5

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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#6

“Anger’s solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity’s a fog to become lost within.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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#7

“Cleverness is a type of strength, and they won't accept a woman who's stronger than they are. Their pride won't allow it, and their pride is the thing they hold dearest.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

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#8

“That mark on the sail is how it starts. It's meant to scare us, because scared people will do anything to stop being scared and they'll do it to almost anybody else.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

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#9

“So this is how men go to the devil, he thought bitterly. Cap in hand and short of hope, all their prayers gone unanswered.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

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#10

“It's the curse of powerful men to heed only their own voices.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

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#11

“Bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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#12

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#13

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

tags: life, math, meaning-of-life, rules-of-life

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#14

“On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

tags: empty, perspective, rain, silence, white-noise

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#15

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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#16

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, advocacy, protest

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#17

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

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#18

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#19

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

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#20

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm

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#21

“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: shyness, social-anxiety, truth

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#22

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca

tags: first-love

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#23

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

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#24

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: funny

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#25

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, talking, writers

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#26

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor-cats-allergies

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#27

“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor

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#28

“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, optimist

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#29

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

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#30

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: the-hunger-games

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