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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

“Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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#3

“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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#4

“Everyone says that he fell because he flew too close to the sun,” his father said, “but he flew, do you see what I mean, Son? He was able to fly. It doesn’t matter if you fall, if you were a bird for even just a few seconds.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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#5

“there are words that cover up the world.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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#6

“He tried to hate God but he doesn’t believe in God. He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn’t keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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#7

“People act like it’s a perfectly normal question, but how normal is a question when you’re expecting the answer to be gruesome?”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

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#8

“I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

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#9

“The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

tags: hearts, pain, survival

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#10

“Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

tags: banned-book, ya, young-adult

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#11

“She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

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#12

“Three life lessons:
1.No one will see you.
2.No one will say anything.
3.No one will save you.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

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#13

“Most people are afraid of themselves, Adam. They carry that fear everywhere hoping no one will notice.”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

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#14

“When you love somebody, you try to be better.”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

tags: love

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#15

“Sometimes the things that happen aren't as important as the things you remember.”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

tags: memory

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#16

“I like libraries, if for no other reason than they give homeless people a place to hang out. There's something nice about the way you're never too old to go into one, but it still makes you feel the way it did when you were small.”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

tags: libraries

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#17

“I get it now. It's hard to let someone find you in all the dark and twisty places inside, but eventually, you have to hope that they do, because that's the beginning of everything.”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

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#18

“You lose your secrets when you let people get too close.”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

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#19

“Respect your elders. When shouldn't it be... respect everyone?”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

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#20

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#21

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life

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#22

“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#23

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: feminism, inspirational, jo-march, life, little-women

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#24

“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#25

“Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott

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#26

“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, shadow, sunshine

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#27

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational, life-lessons

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#28

“The truth is like the waiting jaws of a monster, a more menacing monster than I’ll ever be. It yawns beneath your feet, and you can’t escape it, and as soon as you drop, it chews you to pieces.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

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#29

“Time goes faster the older you get. Makes sense, I guess. A day becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of your life.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

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#30

“Eventually I realized something. Whenever you tell yourself, This time it will be different, it’s as good as a promise that it’ll turn out the same as it always has.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

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