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    Natsuki Takaya
    “Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruits-basket, hurt, save, words, yuki
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    Natsuki Takaya
    “Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruit-basket, japanese, life, manga
    592 likes

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  • #3
    Natsuki Takaya
    “When snow melts, what does it become?'
    It becomes water, of course'
    Wrong! It becomes spring!”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
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    Natsuki Takaya
    “I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruits-basket, hope, yuki
    643 likes

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  • #5
    Natsuki Takaya
    “I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 21
    tags: inspirational
    431 likes

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  • #6
    Natsuki Takaya
    “Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... "
    - Shigure Sohma”
    ― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
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  • #7
    Natsuki Takaya
    “We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruits-basket, humor, manga, natsuki-takaya, shigure
    329 likes

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  • #8
    Natsuki Takaya
    “A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)”
    ― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
    tags: humor, kimono, novelists, shigure, writers
    96 likes

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  • #9
    Natsuki Takaya
    “Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say what you want once in a while. It's okay to let yourself be sad." -Kyo talking to Tohru”
    ― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
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  • #10
    Natsuki Takaya
    “Shigure Sohma: Tohru's very cute in a sweet sort of way.

    Hatori Sohma: For some reason when you say that it reeks of something illegal.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
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  • #11
    Natsuki Takaya
    “If everything you say gets laughed at...

    then you become afraid of everyone...

    and are no longer able to speak...

    even knowing all     that does is bother everyone...

    Your heart...

    ....shuts down...

    And your words die....    ”
    ― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 5
    50 likes

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  • #12
    Natsuki Takaya
    “If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you?”
    ― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 15
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
    5426 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
    17418 likes

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  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    5871 likes

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  • #16
    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery
    3501 likes

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  • #17
    Francine Rivers
    “We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”
    ― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
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    Francine Rivers
    “Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.”
    ― Francine Rivers, The Atonement Child
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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
    43890 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
    18231 likes

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  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
    9635 likes

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  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.”
    ― Mark Twain, Speeches
    tags: humor, wit
    116 likes

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  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “She was not quite what you would call refined.
    She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
    She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, learn, like, people
    568 likes

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  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
    18044 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
    20646 likes

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  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
    7157 likes

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  • #29
    Donna Jo Napoli
    “The world would be a better place if everyone traveled.
    ~Miss Clarrie”
    ― Donna Jo Napoli, Alligator Bayou
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  • #30
    “Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!”
    ― Carolyn Keene, The Bungalow Mystery
    36 likes



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