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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
    tags: dark, darkness, light, stories, story
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “The world is dark, and light is precious.
    Come closer, dear reader.
    You must trust me.
    I am telling you a story.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
    tags: books
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    Elly Blake
    “You don’t know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took years to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken.”
    ― Elly Blake, Frostblood
    tags: arcus, ruby
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    Elly Blake
    “But history could be twisted and warped to suit the person telling it.”
    ― Elly Blake, Frostblood
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    Elly Blake
    “Did Brother Thistle train you in the most effective methods of communicating with me?"
    His head lifted and his lips curved. “He may have given me some advice.”
    “And you took it?” My brows rose.
    “I’m experimenting with it. If it doesn’t work, I’ll go back to my tried and true method.”
    “By which you mean threats and orders.”
    His smile widened.”
    ― Elly Blake, Frostblood
    tags: arcus, ruby
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  • #7
    “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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    “MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:

    WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
    RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.”
    ― R. J. Palacio, Wonder
    tags: kindness, precept, righteousness
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  • #9
    “AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPT
    Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world. --Auggie”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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  • #10
    “the universe takes care of all its birds.”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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  • #11
    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.”
    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
    tags: minimization, posttraumatic, ptsd, reality, society, society-denial, trauma, traumatic
    158 likes

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  • #12
    Raymond Carver
    “But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.”
    ― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
    tags: anxiety, crazy, excitement, fireworks, hyper, life, wild
    284 likes

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  • #13
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
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  • #14
    Nikki Rowe
    “She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.”
    ― Nikki Rowe
    tags: chronic-illness, courage, free-spirit, inner-strength, inspirational, inspire, life-path, mindful, strength, strength-of-character, strong-woman, strong-women, untameable, wild, wild-and-free, wild-woman, wild-women, woman, women
    195 likes

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  • #15
    Nikki Rowe
    “I am a wild woman.
    it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.”
    ― Nikki Rowe
    tags: authentic, bohemian, free-spirit, freedom, gypsy, gypsy-soul, love, love-quotes, lovers, romance, soul-seeker, twin-flame, unique, wild, wild-and-free, wild-woman, wild-women
    160 likes

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  • #16
    Atticus Poetry
    “Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    229 likes

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  • #17
    Atticus Poetry
    “We are all born free
    and spend a lifetime
    becoming slaves
    to our own
    false truths.”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    132 likes

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  • #18
    “There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.”
    ― Barbara Lazear Ascher
    tags: dance, wild
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  • #19
    Atticus Poetry
    “There’s too much risk in loving,’
    the young boy said,
    ‘no,’
    said the old man,
    ‘there’s too much risk in not.”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    96 likes

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  • #20
    Atticus Poetry
    “We humans
    are so tortured
    by not properly guessing
    what will make us happy.”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    55 likes

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  • #21
    Atticus Poetry
    “She was everything real in a world of make-believe. ”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus-finch, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    109 likes

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  • #22
    Atticus Poetry
    “I worry there is something broken in our generation,
    there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    226 likes

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  • #23
    Atticus Poetry
    “There is nothing
    prettier in the
    whole wide world
    than a girl
    in love
    with every breath she takes.”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    263 likes

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  • #24
    Atticus Poetry
    “She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    453 likes

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  • #25
    Atticus Poetry
    “I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
    ― Atticus
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  • #26
    Nikki Rowe
    “She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.”
    ― Nikki Rowe
    tags: authentic, beautiful-life, bohemian, free-spirit, free-spirit-quotes, gypsy, gypsygirl, quote-of-the-day, quotes, quotes-and-sayings, soul-words, untameable, wild, words-for-her
    196 likes

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  • #27
    Gillian Flynn
    “I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
    tags: born, children, raised, upbringing, wild
    165 likes

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  • #28
    Candace Bushnell
    “Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
    -Carrie Bradshaw”
    ― Candace Bushnell
    tags: carrie-bradshaw, free, sex-and-the-city, wild
    696 likes



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