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    Michael Scott
    “If you tell people everything you take away their opportunity to learn.”
    ― Michael Scott, The Magician
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    Walter Dean Myers
    “I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?”
    ― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick
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    Lauren Kate
    “As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would move out of that love. It was the greatest paradox: Souls need each other, but they also need to not need each other.”
    ― Lauren Kate, Fallen in Love
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    Ernest Cline
    “People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
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    “No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”
    ― They Might Be Giants
    tags: humor, pessimistic, they-might-be-giants, tmbw
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    Ernest Cline
    “One person can keep a secret, but not two.”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
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    Ernest Cline
    “You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
    tags: death, humor
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    Ernest Cline
    “I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
    tags: fetish, humor, lust
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    Ernest Cline
    “You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog."

    COURTESY VIOLATION-RESPONSE MUTED-VIOLATION LOGGED”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
    tags: humor, sarcasm
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    Wil Wheaton
    “Things every person should have:

    •A nemesis.
    •An evil twin.
    •A secret headquarters.
    •An escape hatch.
    •A partner in crime.
    •A secret identity.”
    ― Wil Wheaton
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, anger, battles, boyfriends, breakups, choices, confusion, crazy-love, crush, dating, disease, divorce, exboyfriends, exgirlfriends, exspouse, feelings, funny, hatred, humor, in-love, insane, insane-love, insanity, lack-of-communication, life, mad-love, marriage, mixed-signals, obsessive-love, partners, relationships, romance, spouse, struggles, stupid-men, stupid-women, unfinished-business, unrequited-love
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    Patrick Ness
    “A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.”
    ― Patrick Ness, More Than This
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    Sabaa Tahir
    “Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
    ― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
    tags: courage, inspirational, strength
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    Stephen P. Kiernan
    “How old am I again?"
    "You are seventy-eight, Professor."
    He wagged his head. "How in the hell did that happen?"
    "That you've lived so many years?"
    "That they passed so quickly. As brief as lighting.”
    ― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Hummingbird
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    Jojo Moyes
    “You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
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    Jojo Moyes
    “Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
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    Patrick Ness
    “You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.”
    ― Patrick Ness, More Than This
    tags: existence, life
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    Patrick Ness
    “Know yourself and go in swinging.”
    ― Patrick Ness, More Than This
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    Angela Johnson
    “If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...”
    ― Angela Johnson, The First Part Last
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    Angela Johnson
    “And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.”
    ― Angela Johnson, The First Part Last
    tags: adults, coming-of-age, growing-up
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    “Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.”
    ― Drew Barrymore
    tags: courtship, kissing, love, romance
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    “If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.”
    ― Drew Barrymore
    tags: adventure, bravery, carpe-diem, risk, risks, soul
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    Emily Murdoch
    “If you find me, take me home.”
    ― Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me
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    Emily Murdoch
    “Good things come to those who let them in. All you have to do is take a chance.”
    ― Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me
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    Emily Murdoch
    “We make attachments to what's familiar. We find the beauty, even in the lack. That's human. We make the best of what we're given.”
    ― Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me
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    M.T. Anderson
    “We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security”
    ― M.T. Anderson, The Kingdom on the Waves
    tags: fleeing, hope, running-away, security
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    Garth Stein
    “I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.”
    ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
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    Louise Rennison
    “Look, I can't go out with you, because...because...because I'm a lesbian.”
    ― Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #30
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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