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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, patroclus, the-song-of-achilles
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    William Shakespeare
    “These violent delights have violent ends
    And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
    Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
    Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
    And in the taste confounds the appetite.
    Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
    Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    Stephanie Garber
    “She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
    ― Stephanie Garber, Caraval
    tags: julian, scarlett
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    Madeline Miller
    “Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, dead, hero, patrochilles, patroclus
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    J.D. Salinger
    “All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    John Cheever
    “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: readers-and-writers
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #16
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    Madeline Miller
    “There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: historical-fiction
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    Stephanie Garber
    “Every good story needs a villain.
    But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
    ― Stephanie Garber, Legendary
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    J.D. Salinger
    “If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: fuck-you, holden, humor, signs
    662 likes

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    Madeline Miller
    “I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, love, never, patrochilles, patroclus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: ya-fantasy
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “It began with the stars.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
    tags: ya-fantasy
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “I do hope the things I've forgotten don't matter.”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves
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    Chloe Gong
    “These days Juliette,” he said, low and warily, “the most dangerous people are the powerful white men who feel as if they have been slighted.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
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    Chloe Gong
    “She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
    tags: hope
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    Neil Gaiman
    “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
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    Neil Gaiman
    “A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: gaze, human, stars
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    Laini Taylor
    “I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
    tags: karou
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