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    Austin Kleon
    “Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”
    ― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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    “Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
    ― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
    tags: be-brave, embrace-change, love, take-the-risk
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    John Green
    “We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
    ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
    tags: john-green, love, turtles-all-the-way-down
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    John Green
    “Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
    ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
    tags: losing-my-mind, madness, sanity
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    John Green
    “Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
    ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
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    John Green
    “True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
    ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
    tags: john-green, turtles-all-the-way-down
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    Carrie Fisher
    “The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world & show business is a man's meal with women generously sprinkled through it like over-qualified spice.”
    ― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist
    tags: filmmaking, sexism
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    Carrie Fisher
    “I’m frightened of the power I have given him over me and of how he will almost certainly abuse it, merely by not being fully aware he has it.”
    ― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist
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    Carrie Fisher
    “It’s not nice being inside my head. It’s a nice place to visit but I don’t want to live in here. It’s too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.”
    ― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist
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    Meg Cabot
    “Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.”
    ― Meg Cabot
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    Meg Cabot
    “Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.”
    ― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: nerd, reality
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Veronica Roth
    “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: divergent, fear
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    Veronica Roth
    “I am selfish. I am brave.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    Jenny Colgan
    “Baking is...Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..”
    ― Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
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    Jenny Colgan
    “Life was always easier, reflected Issy, when you were carrying a large Tupperware full of cakes. Everyone was happy to see you then.”
    ― Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
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    John Green
    “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: eleanor, eleanor-park, park, rainbow-rowell, swoon, young-adult-contemporary-romance
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    Ally Condie
    “It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: memory, nostalgia
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    Truman Capote
    “It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
    tags: love-nature-sky-thunder
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    Ally Condie
    “I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”
    ― Ally Condie, Reached
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    Ally Condie
    “Words mean what you want them to mean.”
    ― Ally Condie, Reached
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: criticism, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, judgment, men, misogyny, poetry, respect, women, writing
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
    931 likes



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