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    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: stoppard
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “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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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
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    Patrick Ness
    “To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
    ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
    tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility
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    Patrick Ness
    “It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.”
    ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
    tags: perseverance
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    Patrick Ness
    “Faith with proof is no faith at all.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
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    Rick Yancey
    “Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: the-5th-wave
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    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Markus Zusak
    “Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: heart
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    Markus Zusak
    “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, destruction, failure
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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    Libba Bray
    “There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
    ― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
    tags: choice
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    Libba Bray
    “Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”
    ― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
    tags: contrast
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Markus Zusak
    “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: heartbreak, love, sad
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    Markus Zusak
    “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: truth
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: pain, storm, summer
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I renamed myself Ari.

    If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

    I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

    I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.

    Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #29
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #30
    John Corey Whaley
    “I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.”
    ― John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back
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