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#1

“There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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#2

“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

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#3

“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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#4

“I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

tags: kell, lila

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#5

“It’s not such a wonderful thing, to be young,” I said. “It’s heartless, and selfish.”

“But, oh, so free,” Nod said sadly. “So free when you have no worries or cares.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

tags: captain-hook, free, growing-up, heartless, lost-boys, never-grow-up, no-worries, peter-pan, selfish, young

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#6

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: blue-sargent, the-raven-boys

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#7

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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#8

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence

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#9

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: heartbreak, love, sad

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#10

“From the stars, to the stars.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

tags: love

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#11

“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

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#12

“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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#13

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift

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#14

“But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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#16

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up things.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

tags: captain-hook, childish, children, grown-up, in-between, lost-boys, mature, peter-pan, retelling, twilight

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#16

“Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#17

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

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#18

“It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

tags: khalid, sharzad, the-rose-and-the-dagger

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#19

“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

tags: book, bookworm, girl, read, reading, soul, words

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#20

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: life

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#21

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#22

“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

tags: captain-hook, children, die, grow-up, lost-boys, never-grow-up, peter-pan

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#23

“Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown-up? Did you always feel the weight of things on you, your cares pressing you down like a burden you could never shake? No wonder Peter could fly. He had no worries to weight him to the earth.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

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#24

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#25

“I would have been different too, without you. Weaker, reckless.” He smiled slightly. “Afraid of the dark.” He brushed the tears from my cheeks. I wasn’t sure when they’d started. “But no matter who or what I was, I would have been yours.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: alina, love, mal

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#26

“It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe. The legends lie. They smooth over imperfections to tell a good tale, or to instruct us how we should behave, or to assign glory to victors and shame those who falter. Perhaps there were some in Sparta who embodied those myths. Perhaps. But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

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#27

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: love

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#28

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#29

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#30

“Thats the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same." Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. "You see the faults in everything. Including yourself.”
― Austin Chant, Peter Darling

tags: growing-up

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