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    Ayr Bray
    “She [Samantha Lyle] was a realist, someone who knew choices were meant to be made, and that one must suffer the consequences of those choices, no matter what they were.”
    ― Ayr Bray, Magnetic
    tags: realist
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    George Carlin
    “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: grass, hero, heroism, individualism, individuality, nature
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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but you will be soon,' but you know you won't.”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: inspirational
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
    tags: death
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Roman Payne
    “I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
    tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering
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    Roman Payne
    “With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
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    J.G. Ballard
    “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
    tags: imagination, immortality
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    Marcel Proust
    “People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: death, immortality, life, travel
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “So.... You are well equipped for our service.'
    'Which is?'
    'We kill people.”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: duval
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.”
    ― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: abbess, ismae
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    Megan Whalen Turner
    “I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.”
    ― Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Sappho
    “You may forget but
    let me tell you
    this: someone in
    some future time
    will think of us”
    ― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women
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    Sappho
    “I declare
    That later on,
    Even in an age unlike our own,
    Someone will remember who we are.”
    ― Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “...without intelligence, there can be no humour.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
    tags: memory
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    Aaron Sorkin
    “Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”
    ― Aaron Sorkin
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    Aaron Sorkin
    “If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
    ― Aaron Sorkin
    tags: artist, obligation, writing
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    Aaron Sorkin
    “Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”
    ― Aaron Sorkin
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