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#1

“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Shannon Hale

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#2

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

5377 likes

#3

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

5316 likes

#4

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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#5

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

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#6

“No one likes boys! Even girls who like boys can’t stand boys!”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

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#7

“In the forest of primeval
A school for Good and Evil
Twin towers like two heads
One for the pure
And one for the wicked
Try to escape you'll always fail,
The only way out is
Through a fairytale.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

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#8

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

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#9

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#10

“I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try." [Zarek]”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil

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#11

“Maybe that was the dragon part of me coming out, but the thought of being homeless didn’t scare me as much as losing one of my books.”
― Jamie K. Schmidt, The Queen's Wings

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#12

“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

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#13

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

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#14

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

2306 likes

#15

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

tags: adoration, infatuation, love

2826 likes

#16

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

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#17

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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#18

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#19

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

tags: inspirational

2248 likes

#20

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

tags: facts, truth

1146 likes

#21

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

2835 likes

#22

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

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#23

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

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#24

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

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#25

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

tags: nancy-drew

2040 likes

#26

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: bravery, courage, fear

3216 likes

#27

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#28

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words

1563 likes

#29

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

1683 likes

#30

“When in doubt, get the fuck out.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wicked

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