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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Maya Angelou
    “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Donalyn Miller
    “Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.”
    ― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
    tags: books, reading
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
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    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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    Robert Frost
    “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring
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  • #15
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    E. Lockhart
    “Do not accept an evil you can change.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    E. Lockhart
    “We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    E. Lockhart
    “He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
    tags: love, romance
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    E. Lockhart
    “He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    E. Lockhart
    “Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he’s saying. Even when they tell him outright. But also, he doesn’t like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think—even when we don’t feel like thinking.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    Patrick Ness
    “A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.”
    ― Patrick Ness, More Than This
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    John Irving
    “Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
    ― John Irving, The Cider House Rules
    tags: benediction
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  • #23
    John Green
    “Some people have lives; some people have music.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: humor, life, music
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    David Levithan
    “this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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    David Levithan
    “i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on the fan. but talking to you makes me feel like the fan’s been turned off for a little bit. like things could actually make sense. you completely unscatter me, and i appreciate that so much.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: david-leviathan, john-green, will-grayson-will-grayson
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  • #26
    Tim Federle
    “Because there's only two ways to treat a door in scene: Slam it shut or fling it open. The rest is amateur.”
    ― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever
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  • #27
    Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
    “Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
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    Jandy Nelson
    “I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
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    Jandy Nelson
    “I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
    “So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
    He still won’t meet my eyes.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
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  • #30
    Jandy Nelson
    “Quick, make a wish.
    Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
    Remake the world.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
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