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    Stevie Nicks
    “Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.”
    ― Stevie Nicks
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    Democritus
    “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
    ― Democritus
    tags: mystery, religion, science
    162 likes

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    V. Alexander
    “The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.”
    ― V. Alexander
    tags: acting-in-the-dark, mystery, suspense
    28 likes

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    James Morcan
    “Contrary to the media circus which portrayed politicians as all-powerful figures, Kentbridge knew from experience the vast majority of US Government officials – elected or otherwise – were puppets who only had the illusion of power.”
    ― James Morcan, Lance Morcan, The Ninth Orphan
    tags: conspiracy, mystery, politics, thriller
    23 likes

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    John Green
    “Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."
    Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: dissapearence, friendship, mystery, philosophy, road-trip, young-adults
    22 likes

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    Ronald P. Chavez
    “When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.”
    ― Ronald P. Chavez, Winds of Wildfire
    tags: hidden-treasure, history, love, mystery, nature, sex, steamy-romance, war, young-adult
    14 likes

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    Malcolm Muggeridge
    “There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.”
    ― Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom
    tags: irony, mystery
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: acceptance, bravery, courage, critic, critical, criticism, criticize, growing, growth, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, learning, life-and-living, life-quotes, self-knowledge, self-love
    1235 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “Too many locks, not enough keys.”
    ― Sarah Dessen
    tags: inspirational, life-quotes
    94 likes

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    Alice Sebold
    “There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: afterlife, funny, life-quotes
    56 likes

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  • #11
    “When I wake up each morning, I praise the Lord for the gift of being alive.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita
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    Jeremy Aldana
    “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”
    ― Jeremy Aldana
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: smile
    346 likes

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    Adriana Trigiani
    “I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”
    ― Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
    tags: mother, smile
    247 likes

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    Isaac Marion
    “I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
    tags: metaphor, punctuation
    1057 likes

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    Mother Teresa
    “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: agape, love, metaphor, paraphrased
    1012 likes

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  • #18
    Patrick Jones
    “The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.”
    ― Patrick Jones, Nailed
    tags: authority, different, metaphor, rebels, wisdom
    239 likes

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    Anne Lamott
    “Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
    ― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    tags: metaphor
    195 likes

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    Janet Evanovich
    “You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-”
    ― Janet Evanovich, One for the Money
    tags: metaphor, romantic
    91 likes

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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
    tags: drugs, emotions, hope, metaphor
    159 likes

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    Peter Shaffer
    “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
    ― Peter Shaffer
    149 likes

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  • #23
    Stephen King
    “Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.”
    ― Stephen King, The Running Man
    tags: dusk, king, man, metaphor, running, stephen
    39 likes

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  • #24
    “Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.”
    ― Ade Santi
    tags: friends, metaphor, solitude
    3 likes

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  • #25
    “The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.”
    ― Diana Cochran
    tags: darkness, light, metaphor, my-cousin
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    Caroline B. Cooney
    “She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.”
    ― Caroline B. Cooney, The Face on the Milk Carton
    tags: anxiety, confusion, floating, metaphor, mind, ocean, sad, scared
    27 likes

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    Maddy Kobar
    “Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
    They are the definition of freedom”
    ― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013
    tags: freedom, metaphor, poetry, sadness
    2 likes

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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
    tags: cake, diet, frosting, humor, metaphor
    26 likes

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  • #29
    Anne Rivers Siddons
    “...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...”
    ― Anne Rivers Siddons, Sweetwater Creek
    tags: metaphor, simile
    6 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
    15056 likes

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  • #31
    Stephen Chbosky
    “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: happiness
    11996 likes



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