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    Joseph Mitchell
    “...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
    ― Joseph Mitchell
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    Matthew Quick
    “I still love you in my own fucked-up way.”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
    tags: matthew-quick
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    Matthew Quick
    “She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
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    Matthew Quick
    “You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
    tags: family, life-and-living, priorities, time
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    Matthew Quick
    “Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
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    Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: humor
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    Gail McHugh
    “Every part of you was made for me. Your lips were made to kiss mine, your eyes were made to wake up to me looking at you in my bed every morning, and your f***ing tongue was made to roll my name off of it. I am more certain of us than I'm certain that I require oxygen to breathe.”
    ― Gail McHugh, Collide
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    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    “It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: bossypants, tina-fey
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    “You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: blonde-humor, kindlehighlight
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    “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Gail McHugh
    “Sometimes bad choices bring us to the right people, Emily.”
    ― Gail McHugh, Collide
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    S.L. Jennings
    “Everyone has superpowers. Apparently mine are fucking and fighting. I'm insanely good at both."

    -Gabriella”
    ― S.L. Jennings, The Dark Prince
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    S.L. Jennings
    “You can't expect to save someone that doesn't want to be saved.”
    ― S.L. Jennings, Fear of Falling
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    “THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    “It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    “And I can see Russia from my house.”
    ― Tina Fey
    tags: humor, sarah-palin
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    “Never tell a crazy person he’s crazy.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Jorge Amado
    “The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
    ― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
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    Gerard Way
    “Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
    ― gerard way
    tags: life, rebirth, self-discovery
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
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    Toni Morrison
    “And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: heartbreak, life
    3488 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

    'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
    tags: carol, forbidden-love, impossible-love, in-love, lesbian, love, patricia-highsmith, starcrossed-lovers, the-price-of-salt, unrequited-love
    438 likes

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    Jodi Picoult
    “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
    tags: inspirational, jodi-picoult, lone-wolf, wise
    114 likes



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