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    I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her
    “I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.”
    ― Beth Revis, A World Without You
    tags: bo
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    Alexandra Bracken
    “Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.”
    ― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
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  • #3
    Meg Cabot
    “Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”
    ― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl
    tags: bravery, inspirational
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  • #4
    Meg Cabot
    “You’re not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.”
    ― Meg Cabot
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    Jay Asher
    “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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  • #6
    Jay Asher
    “You can't stop the future
    You can't rewind the past
    The only way to learn the secret
    ...is to press play.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: change, future, play, rewind, secret, stop
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    Jay Asher
    “Everything...affects everything”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: suicide, teen, ya
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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “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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  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: love
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  • #17
    E.M. Forster
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: living
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  • #18
    E.M. Forster
    “Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View
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  • #19
    E.M. Forster
    “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
    tags: adventure
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  • #20
    E.M. Forster
    “Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
    tags: criticism, exaggeration, long-book, overpraising, praise, reading, reading-books, reviewing
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  • #21
    E.M. Forster
    “Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
    tags: life
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  • #22
    E.M. Forster
    “The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
    ― E. M. Forster
    tags: birth, death, facts, food, humanity, life, love, sleep
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  • #23
    E.M. Forster
    “Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: 1908, life, metaphor, violin
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