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  • #1
    Gayle Forman
    “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
    ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
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  • #2
    Sappho
    “someone will remember us
    I say
    even in another time”
    ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
    957 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: history
    1591 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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  • #6
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “We all fight our own private wars.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #7
    Kiersten White
    “Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.”
    ― Kiersten White, And I Darken
    tags: lada
    92 likes

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  • #8
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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  • #9
    Leigh Bardugo
    “There is no pain like the pain of transformation.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
    tags: pain, transformation
    65 likes

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  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien
    3027 likes

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  • #11
    Philip Pullman
    “I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
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  • #12
    Madeline Miller
    “The grudges of gods are as deathless as their flesh.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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  • #13
    Margaret Atwood
    “If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems
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  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: friendship, frodo
    3555 likes

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  • #15
    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: caged, fear, gender-roles
    2518 likes

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  • #17
    Karen Maitland
    “Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.”
    ― Karen Maitland, Company of Liars
    tags: power, rain, words
    45 likes

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  • #18
    Anne Carson
    “Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
    ― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
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  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177045 likes

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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: proverb
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  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #22
    Steven Brust
    “Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.”
    ― Steven Brust, Jhereg
    tags: advice, dragons, manners, misattributed-to-tolkien
    626 likes

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  • #23
    Richard Siken
    “A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
                        but then he’s still left
    with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                                                                            but then he’s still left with his hands.”
    ― Richard Siken, Crush
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  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
    tags: books, library, peace, quiet
    101 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
    10162 likes

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  • #26
    “Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together.
    I am not afraid, he said to himself.
    "I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.”
    ― Garth Nix, Sabriel
    tags: love, sabriel
    312 likes

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  • #27
    Isak Dinesen
    “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
    ― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales
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  • #28
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “There is always something left to love.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: love
    2056 likes

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  • #29
    Courtney Summers
    “I live in a place that's only good for leaving.”
    ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
    tags: small-town
    40 likes

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  • #30
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
    22971 likes



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