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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Neil Gaiman
    “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Diane Chamberlain
    “Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.”
    ― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies
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    Karen Joy Fowler
    “Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
    ― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
    tags: memory
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    Karen Joy Fowler
    “The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”
    ― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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    Jojo Moyes
    “Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind
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    Tan Twan Eng
    “To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.”
    ― Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain
    tags: memories
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: anticipation
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    John Green
    “Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: promises
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    John Green
    “You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: death, language, life, writing
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    John Green
    “Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: author-s-note, books, fiction, on-fiction
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    Anthony Doerr
    “But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: time
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    Lone Alaskan Gypsy
    “Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.”
    ― Lone Alaskan Gypsy
    tags: cloud, depressed, depression, falling-apart, loneliness, lonely, rain, sad, sad-love, suicidal, weather
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    Agatha Christie
    “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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    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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    Mother Teresa
    “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: loneliness
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, Keeping The Dead
    tags: heart, life, love
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: imperfect, love
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    “I stopped explaining myself when I realized other people only understand from their level of perception.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: perception
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    “We are bound by our choices, but we are more than our mistakes”
    ― Kate Beckett
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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