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“It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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“Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

tags: ruby-daly

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#4

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#6

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

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#7

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: divergent, fear

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#8

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

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“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: four, heartbreaking, tobias

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#10

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

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#11

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

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#12

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

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#13

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
― J.K Rowling

tags: books, reading

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“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: will-herondale

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#16

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

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#17

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

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#18

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

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#19

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: music, power-of-music

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#20

“Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#21

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

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#22

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#23

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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#24

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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#25

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

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#26

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

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#27

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

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“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

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“Life isn't fair. Why should death be any different?”
― Gina Damico, Croak

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#30

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway

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