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#1

“My heart is really pounding," I said.
"That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: john-green, margo-roth-spiegelman, paper-towns, quentin-jacobsen

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#2

“The town was paper, but the memories were not”
― John Green

tags: paper-towns

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#3

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

tags: books, literature, nose, reading

1233 likes

#4

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
― Walt Disney

tags: books

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#5

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
― Walt Disney

tags: life

594 likes

#6

“It's easier to forgive someone for scaring you than for making you cry.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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#7

“Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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#8

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: books, magic, magic-books

4512 likes

#9

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27738 likes

#10

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

25159 likes

#11

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

23688 likes

#12

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17560 likes

#13

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#14

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale

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#15

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4768 likes

#16

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

tags: book

3069 likes

#17

“I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

185 likes

#18

“An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

80 likes

#19

“They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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#20

“The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: favourite-quote, inspirational

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#21

“There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.”
― Steve Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: avatar, beauty, beauty-is-not-skin-deep, burka, burqa, hijab, mask, niqab, superficial-beauty, true-beauty

315 likes

#22

“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: ideas

264 likes

#23

“I hate when assholes have talent. I want to live in a world where good people rule at everything and shitty people suck at everything.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

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#24

“Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

tags: love

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#25

“You can't just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

tags: truth

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#26

“There's this tug in my chest. Because when Bram says Simon's name, he pronounces every part of it. Like it's worth being careful over.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

tags: simon-and-bram, simon-spier

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#27

“But I know what it's like to be not good enough, in some bone-deep fundamental way.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

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#28

“RIP Leah Burke. She died of acute awkwardosis.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

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#29

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

30790 likes

#30

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, love

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