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#1

“All the truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you—and they’re even better when done to excess.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

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#2

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#3

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: maxims, moral, philosophy, reflections

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#4

“One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

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#5

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

tags: longing, love, lovers, reunion

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#6

“I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened

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#7

“How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her...sweetly.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened

tags: bella, zsadist

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#8

“I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.”
― Lena Dunham

tags: girls

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#9

“To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#10

“To love yourself is a never-ending journey.”
― Oprah Winfrey

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#11

“Equations are the devil's sentences.”
― Stephen Colbert

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#12

“Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

tags: cult, humor, religion, satire

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#13

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#14

“I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: alfred-hitchcock

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#15

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: humor, revenge, sweet

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#16

“It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.

It made me tired just to think of it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression, sadness

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#17

“I collected men with interesting names.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#18

“It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: fall, fallen, plath, sylvia, the-bella-jar

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#19

“That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: funeral, roses, sylvia-plath, the-bell-jar

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#20

“I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#21

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

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#22

“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: books, escape, literature, reading, words

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#23

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: becoming-jane, flirting, sex

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#24

“At some point, while you were roaming the globe, making treaties and dividing the spoils of war, I quietly declared my own independence. I am the sovereign nation of Clio now. And there will be no terms of surrender.”
― Tessa Dare, Say Yes to the Marquess

tags: feminist, inspirational

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#25

“A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: gender-stereotypes

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#26

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

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#27

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: hate, love

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#28

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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#29

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#30

“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”
― Al Gore

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