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#1

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: box, darkness, gift, love

4422 likes

#2

“It was like coming home or being born or suddenly finding an entire half of herself that had been missing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

tags: celeana, chaol, sardothien, westfall

627 likes

#3

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
― Mary Oliver

1415 likes

#4

“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

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#5

“She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.”
― Ann Brashares, The Last Summer of You and Me

79 likes

#6

“I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

tags: balance, balance-of-power

643 likes

#7

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9273 likes

#8

“And then I am going to rattle the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

tags: celaena-sardothien

2805 likes

#9

“She was fire, she was darkness, she was dust and blood and shadow.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

tags: this-sounds-sooo-cool

721 likes

#10

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: life-poetry

1868 likes

#11

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”
― Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

tags: poetry

1205 likes

#12

“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

787 likes

#13

“Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

136 likes

#14

“The rest of the world quieted into nothing. In that moment, after ten long years, Celaena looked at Chaol and realised she was home.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

1344 likes

#15

“She was still on the fall down. There was no getting up, because there was no bottom.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

194 likes

#16

“Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Warded Man

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality

603 likes

#17

“Why would I want to fit in?”
― Carrie Jones, Need

tags: individuality

138 likes

#18

“Let them tremble in fear at what they had awoken.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

176 likes

#19

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage

16602 likes

#20

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: individuality

3633 likes

#21

“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

1550 likes

#22

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality

2507 likes

#23

“Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

1003 likes

#24

“Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.”
― Ann Brashares, The Last Summer of You and Me

tags: forgotton, remembered

139 likes

#25

“I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

tags: love-hurts, waiting

285 likes

#26

“I'm an accident. I'm a lie. And my life depends on maintaining the illusion.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

249 likes

#28

“To escape death, she'd become death.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

tags: death, escape

519 likes

#29

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humour

8636 likes

#30

“If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.”
― Alida Nugent, Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood

tags: alcohol, drinking, humor

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#31

“A few years ago, I graduated college, diploma in one hand, margarita in the other, completely oblivious to the shit storm that was coming my way. Here's a preview: becoming a living, breathing, job-having, bill-paying, responsible adult? Really fucking difficult.”
― Alida Nugent, Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood

tags: adulthood

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