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    Stephen King
    “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
    ― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
    tags: birds, freedom, friends, friendship, letting-go
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “All children should be loved, protected, nurtured--emotionally and intellectually--respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

    Especially, most essentially, by themselves.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Frederick Buechner
    “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
    ― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
    tags: beauty, courage, fear
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: selflessness
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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    “There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
    ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics
    tags: equality, feminism, women
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    Ann Brashares
    “I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.”
    ― Ann Brashares
    tags: blog, fictional-characters, reading, writing
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    Robert Jordan
    “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: forgiveness, men, women
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    Heather Brewer
    “Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.”
    ― Heather Brewer , Twelfth Grade Kills
    tags: fantasy, humor
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    Heather Brewer
    “I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?”
    ― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal
    tags: favorites
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo
    tags: catholic, catholic-author, catholicism, truth
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    Carrie Jones
    “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
    ― Carrie Jones, Need
    tags: courage, freedom, happiness
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  • #15
    You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
    “You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
    ― Mary Tyler Moore
    tags: adversity, bravery, courage, experience, happiness, life
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    Heather Brewer
    “Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.”
    ― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites
    tags: vladimir-tod
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: parenting
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    Heather Brewer
    “If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.”
    ― Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: courage, inaction, just-do-it, timidity
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    Richard Bach
    “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: fiction, inspiration, on-fiction, values
    285 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond.
    "How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks.
    "You were asleep, too?"
    "Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: celaena-sardothien, chaol-westfall, throne-of-glass
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    Heather Brewer
    “Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.”
    ― Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
    tags: best-friend, joss, stake, vlad
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    Heather Brewer
    “People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear.”
    ― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites
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    L'Poni Baldwin
    “When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorated his body. Huge black bruises, long scars that came from sword lacerations and whips and new wounds that bled fresh red blood.
    The Dragonboy's father had no idea his son suffered.
    That's because the boy never told.

    From The Binding, a story from the upcoming tenth update of Dragons and Cicadas”
    ― L'Poni Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run
    tags: abuse, dragons
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    Heather Brewer
    “Lesson #456 of high school life:
    Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.”
    ― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal
    tags: favorites
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    Heather Brewer
    “Morning, sunshine."
    Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid."
    "Pardon me?"
    "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?”
    ― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites
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    Charles Frazier
    “[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.”
    ― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
    tags: redemption
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  • #30
    Jodi Picoult
    “You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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  • #31
    Heather Brewer
    “Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?”
    ― Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
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