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#1

“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: darkness

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#2

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner”
― James Frey

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#3

“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

3282 likes

#4

“Toliko je u životu bilo stvari kojih smo se bojali. A nije trebalo. Trebalo je živeti”
― Ivo Andrić

199 likes

#5

“One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.”
― Ivo Andric

tags: fear, human

231 likes

#6

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

tags: reading, survival

5311 likes

#7

“I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

tags: feyre, love, tamlin, thorns

1323 likes

#8

“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

3572 likes

#9

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10931 likes

#10

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
― Lena Dunham

tags: humor, reading

465 likes

#11

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

6335 likes

#12

“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

48240 likes

#13

“The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. —Father Tyler’s Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

117 likes

#14

“For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.”
― J.K. Rowling

40 likes

#15

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: fear-unknown

8471 likes

#16

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history

3079 likes

#17

“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever,”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

445 likes

#18

“You and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

tags: aelin, badass-ladies, beasts, lysandra

383 likes

#19

“Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

tags: mothers

84 likes

#20

“Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

742 likes

#21

“Aelin frightens everyone…But not him. I think that’s why she fell in love with him, against her best intentions. Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

tags: rowaelin

255 likes

#22

“The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.”
― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling

tags: erika-johansen, father-tyler, kelsea-glynn, queen-of-the-tearling, the-queen-of-the-tearling

85 likes

#23

“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

638 likes

#24

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

1808 likes

#25

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

727 likes

#26

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds”
― Bob Marley, Redemption Song Sheet Music

tags: bob-marley, mental-health, quote, tara-westover

45 likes

#27

“The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

222 likes

#28

“Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

tags: equality, feminism, resentment

131 likes

#29

“Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

tags: motherhood, parenting

95 likes

#30

“We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

tags: likeability, women

53 likes

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