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    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: anne-rice, pandora
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    Jen Campbell
    “CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook.

    BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?”
    ― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
    tags: cookbooks, humour, stupidity
    77 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights
    1438 likes

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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Carlos Santana
    “One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart”
    ― Carlos Santana
    tags: globalization, social
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  • #8
    Irvine Welsh
    “You can't lie to your soul.”
    ― Irvine Welsh, Porno
    tags: honesty, introspection
    2238 likes

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  • #9
    Morgan Rhodes
    “Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls.”
    ― Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms
    tags: paradise, walls
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  • #10
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: ruin-and-rising, teaser
    1050 likes

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  • #11
    Belle Aurora
    “Monsters don't always lurk in the shadows. Sometimes they hide in plain sight.”
    ― Belle Aurora, Raw
    tags: 2014, raw, twitch
    388 likes

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  • #12
    Susanna Clarke
    “And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    1976 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    ― Astrid Lindgren
    tags: books, children, children-s-literature
    3111 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lord-of-the-rings, sam-gamgee
    1678 likes

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  • #16
    Graham Greene
    “Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”
    ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23595 likes

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  • #18
    “You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
    ― Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton
    tags: fantasy, movie-quote
    260 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21787 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
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    George Gissing
    “I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
    ― George Gissing
    tags: books, literature, nose, reading
    1233 likes

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    Jen Campbell
    “bookshops are
    time machines
    spaceships
    story-makers
    secret-keepers
    dragon-tamers
    dream-catchers
    fact-finders
    & safe places.

    (this book is for those who know this to be true)”
    ― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book
    tags: bookshops, dedications, time-machines
    324 likes

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  • #23
    Lang Leav
    “It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.”
    ― Lang Leav, Memories
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  • #24
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: feminism
    3033 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
    20112 likes

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  • #26
    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: truth
    2878 likes

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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    284 likes

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  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
    13161 likes

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  • #29
    Alexandre Dumas
    “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: happiness, pride
    2969 likes



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