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#1

“It was not a windy day, my hair always looks like that.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#2

“one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now”
― Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#3

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#4

“I have seized the day, and the night too.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#5

“People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: chickens, humor

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#6

“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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#7

“I know that I am fortunate to have any place at all to live in London, but I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#8

“He didn't say much at our first meeting - nor at any of our meetings since, come to think of it - but left him into a room, and everyone in it seems to breathe a sigh of relief. I have never in my life had that effect on anyone; I can't imagine why not.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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#9

“I suppose I do have a suitor, but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious meals, but I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: men-and-women

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#10

“The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.”
― David Nicholls, Starter for Ten

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#11

“She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each other down, and yet, here they were after everything, together. She needed him now, needed him to remind her that she was live, that she wasn't alone, that she hadn't lost everything.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Front

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#12

“From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Front

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#13

“Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Front

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#14

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
― Joan Didion

tags: place

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#15

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#16

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

tags: love

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#17

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: freedom, stories

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#18

“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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#19

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

tags: writing

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#20

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: archeology, growing-older, marriage

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#21

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

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#22

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#23

“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: reflection

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#24

“Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken”
― Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1), The

tags: broken-dreams, failure, failures, goals, heartbreak, rejection, rejections

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#25

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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#26

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
― Agatha Christie

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#27

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

tags: fools

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#28

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: inspirational

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#29

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: greatness

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#30

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

tags: death, life

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