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    “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”
    ― James V. Hart, Hook
    tags: dreams, love, misattributed-jm-barrie, misattributed-peter-pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: colours
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
    Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”
    ― James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: john, michael, peter-pan, tinker-bell, wendy
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    Pascal Mercier
    “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
    tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: alone, leaving, moving
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: divorce, leaving
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    Donald Miller
    “Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
    ― Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
    tags: leaving
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    Robyn Schneider
    “And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.”
    ― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
    tags: future, knowing-your-path, leaving, new-start, plans
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    Judith Minty
    “I give you this to take with you:
    Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can
    begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”
    ― Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters
    tags: change, leaving, moving, poetry, rebirth, time
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    John Green
    “Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: goodbye, leaving, life, problem
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    John Irving
    “They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
    tags: awkard, final, leaving, regret
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    John Green
    “I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: john-green, leaving, paper-towns, sad
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    Paulo Coelho
    “...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: leaving, people
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
    tags: arriving, cities, city, destination, empty, home, leave, leaving, left, lose, love, new, streets, touring, travel, traveller, travelling, vagabond, wanderer, wanderlust
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: desire, leaving
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    Shauna Niequist
    “There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.”
    ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
    tags: experiences, leave, leaving, time
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    Julie Kagawa
    “Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.”
    ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
    tags: abandonment, hurt, leaving, life, pain
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    Donna Tartt
    “There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: thoughtful
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    Lili St. Crow
    “And I knew that tone, the pleading, the fear that was sitting like a spiked ball in his chest. He'd been left behind too, maybe more than I had.”
    ― Lili St. Crow, Reckoning
    tags: christophe, dru-anderson, left-behind, lili-st-crow, reckoning, strange-angels
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    Max Ehrmann
    “You are a child of the universe,
    no less than the trees and the stars;
    you have a right to be here.
    And whether or not it is clear to you,
    no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
    ― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
    tags: life, uncertainty
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: simile, uncertainty
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  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
    tags: bright-side, dying, humor, survival
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    Colette
    “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
    ― Colette
    tags: collapse, curiosity, flowers, friendly, friends, grief, letter, love, smile, tears
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