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    Anaïs Nin
    “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
    tags: empowerment, feminism, woman, women-s-strenth
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë
    tags: inspirational
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    ― Irwin Shaw
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, The Host
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #10
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Lucy Christopher
    “Lets face it, you did steal me. But you saved my life too. And somewhere in the middle, you showed me a place so different and beautiful, I can never get it out of my mind. And I can't get you out of there either. You're stuck in my brain like my own blood vessels.”
    ― Lucy Christopher, Stolen
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    Lucy Christopher
    “And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.”
    ― Lucy Christopher, Stolen
    tags: australia, fiction, gemma, hospital, kidnapping, stockholm-syndrome, ty
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    Lucy Christopher
    “People love what they're used to, I guess."
    "No." You shook your head. "People should love what needs loving. That way they can save it.”
    ― Lucy Christopher, Stolen
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: love, simile
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
    “Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster."

    Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.”
    ― Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
    tags: monster
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: dreaming, dreams
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    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
    tags: poetry, power-of-words
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    Isaac Marion
    “What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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    Isaac Marion
    “Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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    Isaac Marion
    “The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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    Isaac Marion
    “Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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    Isaac Marion
    “There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
    tags: self-determination
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    Tabitha Suzuma
    “You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
    ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
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  • #28
    “I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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  • #29
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #30
    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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