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    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness
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    Marissa Meyer
    “But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
    tags: love, lunar-chronicles, scarlet, wolf
    868 likes

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    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
    177016 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “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
    78302 likes

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  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Ashley Poston
    “I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
    ― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip
    374 likes

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    Ashley Poston
    “You only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.”
    ― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip
    185 likes

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  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
    2151 likes

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  • #9
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
    26993 likes

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  • #10
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
    43672 likes

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  • #11
    Rachel Gillig
    “Be wary. Be clever. Be good.”
    ― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window
    258 likes

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  • #12
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea
    254 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Men often described the girl as having hair the color of wheat. Others called it the color of caramel, or occasionally the color of honey. The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women’s features. There was a hunger to such men that was best avoided.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea
    42 likes

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    Stephen Fry
    “Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
    tags: funny, greek, humor, humour, language, myth, mythology, myths, pronounciation
    148 likes

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    Stephen Fry
    “Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
    60 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Your hair is winter fire,
    January embers.
    My heart burns there, too.”
    ― Stephen King, It
    tags: beauty, ben-hanscom, fire, haiku, hair, it, love, love-quotes, stephen-king
    95 likes

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  • #17
    Mae West
    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women
    3827 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
    1636 likes

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  • #19
    T. Kingfisher
    “She made dramatic plans in the darkness and discarded them in daylight.”
    ― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
    tags: darkness, daylight, discarded, dramatic, dramatic-plans, marra, nettle-and-bone, plans, t-kingfisher
    38 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “It’s a common mistake to assume that someone is weak because they are accommodating. If you think this, you might be the type who has no idea how much effort—how much strength—it takes to put up with your nonsense.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
    118 likes

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  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: fear, grief, sorrow
    3049 likes

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  • #22
    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
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  • #23
    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
    8369 likes

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  • #24
    Stephen King
    “Your hair is winter fire
    January embers
    My heart burns there, too.”
    ― Stephen King, It
    1387 likes

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  • #25
    June Hur
    “If by any chance we do not meet again in this lifetime, then I will find you in the next—or as many lifetimes as it takes to see you again.”
    ― June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves
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    Michael Crichton
    “Life will find a way.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
    258 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: neil-gaiman, the-graveyard-book
    2235 likes

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  • #28
    Rachel Gillig
    “You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”
    ― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth
    89 likes

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  • #29
    M.L. Wang
    “It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”
    ― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven
    118 likes

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  • #30
    George Orwell
    “There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    95 likes



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