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    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: books, stories
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    Patrick Ness
    “Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: a-monster-calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: fiction, stories
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories don't always have happy endings."

    This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: happy-endings, stories, wild
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    Patrick Ness
    “There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.

    And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"    ”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Patrick Ness
    “The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: killers, murder, skepticism
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  • #9
    Ned Vizzini
    “I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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    H.L. Mencken
    “An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques
    tags: cabbage, cooking, fragrance, humor, idealism, metaphors, perfume, roses, similes
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    H.L. Mencken
    “A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: cynic, definitions
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    H.L. Mencken
    “On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”
    ― H. L. Mencken
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    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy
    tags: belief, democracy, government, humor, ignorance, intelligence, pathetic, political-commentary, politics, public-office
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
    tags: inner-voice
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    David Levithan
    “You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately.”
    ― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
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    “The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”
    ― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
    tags: langston
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  • #18
    “I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”
    ― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
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  • #19
    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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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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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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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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  • #27
    Michelle Hodkin
    “Did I just see you litter?'
    'I'm driving a hybrid. It cancels out.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
    tags: environmentalism
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    Mel Brooks
    “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
    ― Mel Brooks
    tags: comedy, humor, tragedy
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  • #29
    “We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.”
    ― Emilio Estevez
    tags: beautiful, broken, connection, imperfection, life, truth
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  • #30
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
    27734 likes



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