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    J.K. Rowling
    “Enter, stranger, but take heed
    Of what awaits the sin of greed,
    For those who take, but do not earn,
    Must pay most dearly in their turn,
    So if you seek beneath our floors
    A treasure that was never yours,
    Thief, you have been warned, beware
    Of finding more than treasure there.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: gringotts, stealing, thieves, warning
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: feelings, flattery, love, secret-love, sense, unavowed-love, vulnerability, women
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    Jane Austen
    “Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

    -Elinor Dashwood”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: chapter-17, elinor-dashwood, sense
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights
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    Criss Jami
    “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: chances, commitment, courtship, dating, faithfulness, friendship, love, marriage, mates, patience, relationships, risk-taking, soulmates, waiting-for-true-love
    1886 likes

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    Mitch Albom
    “But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”
    ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
    tags: mother, stories
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: humour, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101563 likes

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    Sidney Sheldon
    “Being poor is only romantic in books.”
    ― Sidney Sheldon, Rage of Angels
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    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
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21823 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Paulo Coelho
    “i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
    that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'

    And a little later you added:
    'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'

    'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'

    But the prince made no answer.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: sunset
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    Mitch Albom
    “Tears are okay”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: mitch-albom, tuesdays-with-morrie
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    E. Lockhart
    “The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with unresolved anger, the guy with a chip on his shoulder, the guy who’s a vampire – and they tell you that you can have the mythical happy ending with that same brooding guy.
    But in reality, the brooding guy is cranky. He doesn’t reply to emails. He doesn’t call. He’s only half there when you’re talking to him, and he doesn’t chase you when you run. You feel insecure all the time. You get needy and sad and you hate yourself got being needy.

    If you don’t know why he’s brooding, you’re shut out.

    And if you do know why he’s brooding, you’re still shut out. (Because he’s busy brooding.)”
    ― E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
    tags: bad-boys, boyfriends, brooding-boys, dating, love-interests, relationships
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    Paulo Coelho
    “But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: grief, mind
    85 likes

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  • #30
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
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