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    Lois Lowry
    “He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: comfort, healing, loneliness
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Hey, I’m not judging. I’m familiar with IT-relations. Just wait until you meet our spaceship. She’s a riot.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Captain,” she murmured.
    “I think I’m in love with you.”
    An eyebrow shot up. She counted six beats of his heart before, suddenly, he laughed.
    “Don’t tell me it took you two whole days to realize that. I must be losing my touch.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Cress
    tags: cress, thorne
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights
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    Lois Lowry
    “It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other.”
    ― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
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    Lois Lowry
    “All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Lois Lowry
    “But there was nothing left to do but continue”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Lois Lowry
    “It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: lois-lowry, the-giver
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    Lois Lowry
    “Memories are forever.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: lois-lowry, the-giver
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  • #15
    J.M. Barrie
    “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: goodbye
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    Lois Lowry
    “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: dystopia, future, life, sci-fi, the-giver, utopia
    390 likes

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  • #17
    Lois Lowry
    “I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: alienation, alone, belonging, jonah, life, lois-lowry, lonely, place, sorry, strange, stupid, the-giver, wisdom
    512 likes

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    Shelby Foote
    “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
    ― Shelby Foote
    tags: boredom, perfection, utopia
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    M.T. Anderson
    “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”
    ― M. T. Anderson, Feed
    tags: first-sentence
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    M.T. Anderson
    “The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.”
    ― M.T. Anderson, Feed
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    M.T. Anderson
    “You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.”
    ― M.T. Anderson, Feed
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    M.T. Anderson
    “Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.”


    Blam.
    ”
    ― M.T. Anderson, Feed
    tags: feed
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    M.T. Anderson
    “I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.”
    ― M.T. Anderson, Feed
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  • #24
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
    22970 likes

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    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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  • #27
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: love
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: happiness
    11983 likes



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