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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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  • #5
    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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    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
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: humor-cats-allergies
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    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
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  • #9
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: inspirational, women
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: loneliness, misattributed
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    ― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
    tags: philosophy
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  • #14
    “Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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  • #15
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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  • #16
    Roald Dahl
    “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: happy, inspirational
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, humor
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction
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    Douglas Adams
    “This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: life, sci-fi
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    Douglas Adams
    “One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humans, humor, interesting
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  • #24
    Laini Taylor
    “There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?”
    ― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters
    tags: future, past, present
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  • #25
    John Green
    “You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. ”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
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  • #27
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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  • #29
    Lemony Snicket
    “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: comfort, crying, tears
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  • #30
    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence
    4225 likes



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