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#1

“So now I have sworn to bury
All this dead body of hate
I feel so free and so clear
By the loss of that dead weight”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

tags: clockwork-prince

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#2

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

tags: attitude, inspirational

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#3

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”
― Toni Morrison, Tar Baby

tags: beauty

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#4

“It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either."
"Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly.
His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love—then you are human.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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#5

“I always wonder about raindrops.

I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It's like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn't seem to care where the contents fall, doesn't seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors.

I am a raindrop.

~~My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab.~~”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#6

“Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the day before. It's like a negligent parent who only knows one half of who you are. It never sees how its absence changes people. How different we are in the dark.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: omg-amazing

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#7

“Killing time isn't as difficult as it sounds.

I can shoot a hundred numbers through the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in the palm of my hand. I can rip the numbers off a clock and watch the hour hand tick tick tick its final tock just before I fall asleep. I can suffocate seconds just by holding my breath. I've been murdering minutes for hours and no one seems to mind.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#8

“Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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#9

“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

tags: destination, destiny, goals, life, patience, snail, waiting

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#10

“Everything seems simpler from a distance.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

tags: distance, life, people, simple, simplicity

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#11

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#12

“The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again”
― Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

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#13

“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: cassandra-clare, clockwork-princess, the-infernal-devices, will-herondale

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#14

“Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?'
'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: cassandra-clare, clockwork-prince, tessa-grey, the-infernal-devices, will-herondale

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#15

“Never trust a duck.”
― Will Herondale

tags: cassandra-clare, the-infernal-devices, will-herondale, william-herondale

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#16

“There is more to living than not dying.”
― James Carstairs Cassandra Clare

tags: beautiful, clockwork-angel, the-infernal-devices

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#17

“He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

tags: clockwork-angel, jem-carstairs, the-infernal-devices, will-herondale

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#18

“Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken before. And she would put herself back together and go on, because the memory of having had Jem would be better than never having had him at all.”
― Cassandra Clare, After the Bridge

tags: after-the-bridge, beautiful, jem-carstairs, love, tessa-gray, the-infernal-devices

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#19

“Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die."

"And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why -- I've just met you -- but I do.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: cassandra-clare, clockwork-angel, jem-carstairs, tessa-gray, the-infernal-devices, tid

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#20

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: courage, curiosity, hopefulness, motivational, perseverance, universe, wonder

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#21

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry

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#22

“Please allow me to offer you three pieces of advice:

One: Be bold. Never miss an opportunity to let your brilliance shine and dazzle. Take that chance. Accept the challenge, or if the challenge doesn’t arise, make your own challenges.

Two: Don’t settle for mediocrity. Find a dream and pursue it. Allow every decision you make to bring you closer in achieving that dream.

And three: Have fun. Take time to play, because if you’re not having a good tear-squirting belly laugh, chances are you’re doing it wrong.

I will not wish you good luck. I don’t believe luck to be a necessary ingredient for success. Instead, I wish you the wisdom to make good decisions. I’m sure you will be fabulous.

Grace”
― Alyssa Brugman

tags: life-advice

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#23

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

tags: hiking, mountains, nature, wilderness

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#24

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#25

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#26

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#27

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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#28

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#29

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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#30

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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