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    J.M. Barrie
    “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: goodbye
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: heart, lover, madman, minstrel
    906 likes

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    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love
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    Madeline Miller
    “We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, patroclus, the-song-of-achilles
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    George R.R. Martin
    “And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: a-clash-of-kings, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, jon-snow
    80 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
    tags: narnia
    263 likes

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    Patricia Briggs
    “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
    tags: change, mind, summer, winter
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
    tags: melancholy, night, sad, winter
    996 likes

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    James Joyce
    “My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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    Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    “To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
    ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    tags: apocalypse, ireland, irish
    337 likes

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    Bernie Mcgill
    “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
    ― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet
    tags: gothic, historical-fiction, ireland, irish, literary-fiction, mother, passion, secret, victorian
    161 likes

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    W.H. Auden
    “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: auden, hurt, ireland, poetry, yeats
    45 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: appreciation, nature, seasons, snow, winter
    3451 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Nothing burns like the cold.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: burn, cold, winter
    1478 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: happiness, narnia
    332 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: c-s-lewis, children, grown-ups, narnia, silliness
    133 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “this is a book about something”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
    tags: aslan, c-s-lewis, christian, digory, fantasy, magician-s-nephew, narnia, polly
    119 likes

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    Tamora Pierce
    “You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage
    tags: carthak, daine, dragon, kitten
    243 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: adult, christopher, dragon, eragon, paolini, young
    284 likes

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  • #20
    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    ― Derek Walcott
    tags: read, travel
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  • #21
    Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
    “Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
    tags: where-the-wild-things-are
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    Maurice Sendak
    “There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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    Maurice Sendak
    “I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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    Maurice Sendak
    “And [he] sailed back over a year
    and in and out of weeks
    and through a day
    and into the night of his very own room
    where he found his supper waiting for him
    and it was still hot”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
    168 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие
    tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest, usefulness, work
    1968 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
    12854 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13880 likes

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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
    tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women
    3351 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
    6266 likes



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