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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    Diane Setterfield
    “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: books, power-of-words
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    Leonora Carrington
    “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
    ― Leonora Carrington
    tags: dawn, light, silence
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    Alison McGhee
    “You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
    ― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea
    tags: expectations, powerful, silence
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    Czesław Miłosz
    “In a room where
    people unanimously maintain
    a conspiracy of silence,
    one word of truth
    sounds like a pistol shot.”
    ― Czesław Miłosz
    tags: democracy, dissent, heroes, honesty, integrity, truth, truth-telling, virtue
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.”
    ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
    tags: nora, patch
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    Anne Rice
    “Keep your secrets
    Keep your silence
    It is a better gift than truth”
    ― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: painting
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    Pythagoras
    “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
    ― Pythagoras
    tags: silence, words
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    J.R. Ward
    “You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
    Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
    You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.”
    ― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
    tags: beth, paranormal-romance, vampire, wrath
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    Groucho Marx
    “If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
    ― Groucho marx
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    Chris Rock
    “You can only offend me if you mean something to me.”
    ― Chris Rock
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: islam, muhammad, truth
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.”
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
    tags: feminism, financial-freedom, islam
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
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    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    ― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
    tags: inspirational
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
    Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: life, living, poetry
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    Mary Oliver
    “The Uses Of Sorrow

    (In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

    Someone I loved once gave me
    a box full of darkness.

    It took me years to understand
    that this, too, was a gift.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Thirst
    tags: darkness, poetry, sorrow
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: change, control, empowerment, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational
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    Hayley Williams
    “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
    ― Hayley Williams
    tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: dreams, life, love
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    Kami Garcia
    “The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
    ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
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    Henry Miller
    “Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
    ― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
    tags: life
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    “The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
    ― Lily Tomlin
    tags: humor, life, rat-race
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    Suzanne Collins
    “We could do it, you know."
    "What?"
    "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: life, love, survival, ya, young-adult
    1397 likes



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