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    Maureen Johnson
    “Fear can’t hurt you,” she said. “When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.”
    ― Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star
    tags: bravery, fear
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    Maureen Johnson
    “It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.”
    ― Maureen Johnson, The Last Little Blue Envelope
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    Maureen Johnson
    “You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”
    ― Maureen Johnson, The Last Little Blue Envelope
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    Maureen Johnson
    “I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.”
    ― Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star
    tags: maureen-johnson, shades-of-london, southerners, the-name-of-the-star, ya, young-adult
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
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    Matthew Quick
    “If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
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    Matthew Quick
    “I am practicing being kind over being right.”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
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    Matthew Quick
    “You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.”
    ― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
    tags: differences, different, leonard-peacock, matthew-quick
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    Judy Blume
    “Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. ”
    ― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters
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    Judy Blume
    “Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
    ― judy blume
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    Judy Blume
    “but you don’t want your fears to limit your possibilities.”
    ― Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event
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    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
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    Anne Frank
    “Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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    John Green
    “Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: reading, simile
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    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: paper-towns
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    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: life, love, margo-roth-spiegelman, truth
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    “You need to get right with God, you need to get right with Kelly, and you need to start spendin' time with dem precious chirren. Don't matter hows much money yous got, you can't buy back time. You been worrin' 'bout all da wrong thangs.”
    ― Bobby Cole, The Rented Mule
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    Pamela Redmond Satran
    “A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
    one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
    lets her cry...”
    ― Pamela Redmond Satran
    tags: friendship
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    Chaim Potok
    “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen
    tags: silence
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    Anita Diamant
    “As far as I can tell, common sense hasn’t been in fashion for a long time.”
    ― Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl
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    Charles de Lint
    “There's never an easy route to the things that matter.”
    ― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl
    tags: charles-de-lint, east-route, joe-crazy-dog, never, onion-girl, things-that-matter
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    Deborah Rodriguez
    “Women are like tea bags; you never know how strong they are until they’re put in hot water. — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT”
    ― Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul
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    Charles de Lint
    “Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
    ― Charles de Lint, Moonheart
    tags: qotd, wonders
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    Charles de Lint
    “I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”
    ― charles de lint
    tags: compassion, helping-others, inspirational, personal-responsibility
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