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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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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: fact
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: arrow, heart, inej, romance, suli-poverb
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: live-death-love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: hermione
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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    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
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    Oğuz Atay
    “Bana çay pişir. Bırakalım her şey kendi kendine düzene girsin. Yavaş yavaş soyunalım. Bir şey kaybetmek korkusuyla yaşamayalım. Ne olacak endişesine kapılmayalım. Bırakalım zaman her şeyi halletsin. Bu söz bize korkunç gelmesin. Aynı ırmağa bir kere daha girelim. Acele etme, çay kendi kendine demlenir... Günlük yaşantıların küçük koşuşmaları içinde bunalmayalım, nefes nefese kalmayalım. İnsan kendini kaybediyor sonra.”
    ― Oğuz Atay, Tehlikeli Oyunlar
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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
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: books, bookstore, towns
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    Irvine Welsh
    “You can't lie to your soul.”
    ― Irvine Welsh, Porno
    tags: honesty, introspection
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    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Oğuz Atay
    “Beni hemen anlamalısın, çünkü ben kitap değilim, çünkü ben öldükten sonra kimse beni okuyamaz, yaşarken anlaşılmaya mecburum.”
    ― Oğuz Atay, Tehlikeli Oyunlar
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    Wentworth Dillon
    “Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
    ― Wentworth Dillon
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    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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    Morgan Matson
    “Saying good-bye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It's making it okay for that to be the last conversation you have. So if you don't say it--if you leave the conversation open--it means you'll have to see them again." ~Roger Sullivan”
    ― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Where do the ducks go in the winter?”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Susan Ee
    “My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name, soldier boy?”
    ― Susan Ee, Angelfall
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    Susan Ee
    “I knew from the start that your loyalty would get you killed. I just never thought it would be your loyalty to me that would do it.”
    ― Susan Ee, Angelfall
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
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    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy
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    Cassandra Clare
    “You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
    "A long one?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments
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    Gena Showalter
    “That's because I'm made of awesome."

    "And dipped in awesome."

    "And sprinkled with awesome."

    "Gods, I love the taste of awesome.”
    ― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Surrender
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  • #29
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    Gena Showalter
    “I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
    ― Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness
    tags: antipathy, dislike, funny, hatred
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