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    Deborah Wiles
    “There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it's up to you to decide how you're going to approach the world...how you're going to live in it, and what you're going to do."

    —Jo Ellen Chapman”
    ― Deborah Wiles, Countdown
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    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    ― John Green
    tags: humor, nerdfighters
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    Sloane Crosley
    “There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.”
    ― Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
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    Chelsea Handler
    “At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall ALL the time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer.”
    ― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
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    Brian Selznick
    “Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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    Lauren Child
    “I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny. ”
    ― Lauren Child
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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  • #9
    Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
    “Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
    tags: where-the-wild-things-are
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: books, magic, universe
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    Graeme Simsion
    “But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”
    ― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
    tags: confusion, love, relationships, the-rosie-project
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    Matthew Quick
    “Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
    tags: endurance, feelings-of-weakness, happiness, life, literature, movie, sadness
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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  • #14
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    Emily St. John Mandel
    “Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
    ― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
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    Stephen King
    “The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
    ― Stephen King, Night Shift
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    Emily Henry
    “Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give.”
    ― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World
    tags: love
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    Emily Henry
    “And when you see those good things--and I promise you, there are so many good things--they're going to be so much brighter for you than they are for other people, just like the abyss always seems deeper and bigger when you stare at it. If you stick it out, it's all going to feel worth it in the end. Every moment you live, every darkness you face, they'll all feel worth it when you're staring light in the face.”
    ― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World
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    Angie Thomas
    “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: black-lives-matter, racism
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    tags: finding-yourself, searching, travel
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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  • #29
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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  • #30
    Jason Reynolds
    “Your dream is the mole
    behind your ear,
    that chip in your
    front tooth,
    your freckles.
    It's the thing that makes
    you special,
    but not the thing that makes
    you great.
    The courage in trying,
    the passion in living,
    and the acknowledgement
    and appreciation of
    the beauty happening around
    you does that.”
    ― Jason Reynolds, For Every One
    tags: dreamer
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    Casey McQuiston
    “Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
    ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
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