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#1

“Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

tags: caleb, maggie, romantic, sweet

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#2

“[Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the path already carved out for you. But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. Changing the world is'nt easy, but I sure as hell am going to keep trying. Are you?”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

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#3

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#4

“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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#5

“Simply to endure is to triumph.”
― Patricia McCormick, Sold

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#6

“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”
― Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

tags: inspiration, psychology

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#7

“Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

tags: avoidance, high-school

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#8

“The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: football, high-school

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#9

“You’ve heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well, just change that to "F**k a man and you’ve made him happy for a day. Teach a man to f**k and you’ve made him happy for a lifetime.”
― Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed

tags: fishing, fuck, fucking, sex, sex-education, teaching-men

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#10

“Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well.”
― Bob Smith, Openly Bob: Candid and Wry Comic Essays on Gay Life in a Straight Society

tags: humor, incompetence, sex-education

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#11

“And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

tags: australia, fiction, gemma, hospital, kidnapping, stockholm-syndrome, ty

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#12

“Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher

tags: dreams

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#13

“Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher

tags: hope, hopeful, hopeful-and-encouraging, inspirational, light, stars

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#14

“Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

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#15

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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#16

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

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#17

“Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.”
― Jane Yolen, Briar Rose

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#18

“...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

tags: honor, inspirational, right-and-wrong

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#19

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

tags: julianna-baker

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#20

“We live in a world defined by its boundaries: You cannot travel faster than the speed of light. You must and will die. You cannot escape these boundaries. But the miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

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#21

“When loved ones die, people always say, “Don’t be sad. I’m sure they would have wanted you to be happy.” I’m sure that’s true. But let’s be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person’s nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

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#22

“I feel very lucky to know you—and as far as I have seen, to know you is literally to love you.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

tags: love

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#23

“In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.”
― John Green, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

tags: john-green

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#24

“A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

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#25

“At the end of our life, author Jack Kornfield says, the most important question is not how hard we worked or how much we accomplished. It’s “Did I Love Well?”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

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#26

“Love is Stronger. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

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#27

“Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

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#28

“She was a champion of the lonely, a welcomer of strangers, an inviter.”
― Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

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#29

“What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to perform or be cute, and books never disappoint-- unless, of course, you've chosen a bad one. But then, you can always put it down and pick up another one without any repercussions.”
― Lisa Yee, Millicent Min, Girl Genius

tags: truth

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#30

“What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

tags: rape, reality, socitey

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