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    Naomi Novik
    “truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”
    ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
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    Victoria Schwab
    “But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.”
    ― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
    tags: knowing, miserable, people
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    Victoria Schwab
    “I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
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    Charlie Jane Anders
    “(He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.)”
    ― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
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    Charlie Jane Anders
    “We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.”
    ― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
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    Charlie Jane Anders
    “every time you solve a problem you’d cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature’s way of striking a balance? We humans don’t have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us.”
    ― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
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    Charlie Jane Anders
    “But the real point is, how do you ever know your own emotions are spontaneous and genuine, and not just a programmed set of responses?”
    ― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
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    Charlie Jane Anders
    “no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
    ― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
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    Charlie Jane Anders
    “Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other,”
    ― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
    tags: attraction, co-dependence, divorce, idealism, idealists, marriage, narcissism, sociopathology, the-rules-of-attraction, victims-of-narcissists
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    Elizabeth May
    “Must you question everything?”
    “Aye,” I say. “It delights me to annoy you whenever possible.”
    ― Elizabeth May, The Falconer
    tags: aileana, couples, fae, kairan, love
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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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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    “I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.”
    ― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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    David Levithan
    “Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.”
    ― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
    tags: happiness, life, singing-in-the-rain
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Ransom Riggs
    “When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: answers, love, true, universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I renamed myself Ari.

    If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

    I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

    I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: summer
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Becky Albertalli
    “What's a dementor?"
    I mean, I can't even. "Nora, you are no longer my sister."
    "So it's some Harry Potter thing," she says.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: funny, harry-potter-reference
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    Becky Albertalli
    “People really are like house with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it's a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
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    Jennifer Niven
    “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: all-the-bright-places, jennifer-niven
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    Soman Chainani
    “To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.”
    ― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
    tags: purpose, self-love
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    Soman Chainani
    “I'm afraid I've already found my Ever After, Hort," said Sophie.

    "What? With who?" Hort asked, aghast.

    "On my own," she said, her voice sure and clear. "I'm happy on my own."

    And for the first time, she knew it was true.”
    ― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
    tags: feminism, happy-ending, self-love, sophie
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    Natasha Ngan
    “I don't want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.”
    ― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire
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