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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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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#4

“Either way, we'll carry it. We always do.
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I'm sorry. I couldn't carry it anymore.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

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#5

“I am empty, and more than that, a black hole, so absolutely composed of nothingness that I attract all somethingness to me.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

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#6

“Let me make you the queen that you are. Let me guard your body, your soul, your heart. Let me spend the rest of my fucking pathetic life at your mercy. If I need to die, then let me do it by your hand. Please.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

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#7

“She looked at him like he was the sun. And he looked at her like she was the moon.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

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#8

“He didn’t want me to jump because he didn’t want me to find out I could catch myself.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

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#9

“In a dark world, eyes naturally find the light. She becomes the brightest thing in his.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

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#10

“What, then, is a desire? We may begin by stating what it is not. A desire is not a whim. It is not an idle wish concocted on a sunny afternoon. A desire is a profundity of want, a deep and abiding craving that cannot be denied.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

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#11

“Matt and Sloane had been living in a moment of held breath. The exhale had always been coming.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

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#12

“He wears masks on top of masks, that man.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

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#13

“We're supposed to be a team, Sloane."
"You don't want a team," Sloane said. "You want obedience.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

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#14

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#15

“Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

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#16

“Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

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#17

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

tags: attitude, confidence, joe-ledger, patient-zero, thriller

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#18

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#19

“Everything’s a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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#20

“If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

tags: riddles

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#21

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

tags: avery-grambs, grayson-hawthorne, jameson-hawthorne, the-inheritance-games

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#22

“Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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#23

“why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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#24

“Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

tags: sloane, statistics

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#25

“And you're having trouble believing they would lie to us? Why--because they said please and thank you?"

"Always with the drama." Esther rolled her eyes. "All I'm doing is trying not to freak out; I'm not campaigning for them to get the Nobel Prize.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

tags: discussion, drama, freak-out

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#26

“Sloane felt the same wrongness she felt around the Needle, like all her innards were in the wrong places, like the world had turned into a nightmare and she didn't remember falling asleep.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones

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#27

“Embrace the nerd inside of you. Change the world!”
― David Collins, Convention War

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#28

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

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#29

“My truth is not the same as yours because we don’t experience life in the same way.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

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#30

“No one is too high or too low for common courtesy.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

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