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    John Green
    “Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: hurricane, love, people, unrequited-love
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    Steven Tyler
    “Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.”
    ― Steven Tyler
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  • #3
    “remember,
    you were a writer
    before
    you ever
    put
    pen to paper.
    just because you were not writing
    externally.
    does not mean you were not writing
    internally.”
    ― Nayyirah Waheed
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  • #4
    “i loved you
    because
    it was easier
    than
    loving myself.”
    ― Nayyirah waheed
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  • #5
    “you
    not wanting me
    was
    the beginning of me
    wanting myself
    thank you”
    ― Nayyirah Waheed
    tags: heartbreak, inspirational, poetry
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  • #6
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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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  • #7
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #8
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #10
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #11
    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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  • #12
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
    tags: hope, light
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  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: benediction, gift, light
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  • #14
    Jerry Spinelli
    “She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
    ― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
    tags: light, love
    410 likes

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  • #15
    Marina Keegan
    “I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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  • #16
    Marina Keegan
    “And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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  • #18
    “I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well guess what? I've read every single book on the New York Times list of 'Top 100 Literary Classics,' not to mention every Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath or Bronte sisters’ book ever written. And fuck you very much for judging me, by the way.”
    ― Isobel Irons, Promiscuous
    tags: anorexia, high-school, humor, issues, new-adult, sexual-abuse, slut-shaming, teen
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    Marina Keegan
    “We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
    tags: marina-keegan, possibility, the-opposite-of-loneliness
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  • #20
    Marina Keegan
    “So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back.
    Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency.
    Because there's a bedtime.
    Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and
    If you don't respond soon,
    I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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  • #21
    Marina Keegan
    “something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world’s remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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    Marina Keegan
    “But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
    tags: love, relationships
    82 likes

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  • #23
    Marina Keegan
    “The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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  • #24
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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  • #25
    George Gissing
    “I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
    ― George Gissing
    tags: books, literature, nose, reading
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  • #26
    Roman Payne
    “She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
    ― Roman Payne
    tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering
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  • #27
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
    6324 likes



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