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  • #1
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    9214 likes

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    Deborah Harkness
    “I have a weakness for smart men.”
    ― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches
    60 likes

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    Elizabeth George
    “There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
    ― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph
    tags: life-questions
    1606 likes

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  • #4
    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    ― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
    3854 likes

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  • #5
    André Aciman
    “Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
    ― André Aciman
    1294 likes

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  • #6
    Darcy Leech
    “Her words felt like a new beginning, a turning of a page, and, ominously, rang like the beginning of a final chapter.”
    ― Darcy Leech, From My Mother
    tags: dnr, end-of-life, life-support, muscular-dystrophy, myotonic-dystrophy, myotonic-muscular-dystrophy, terminal-disease, ventilator
    12 likes

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  • #7
    Brandon Sanderson
    “I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: personality
    1009 likes

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  • #8
    Arthur Miller
    “I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been..”
    ― Arthur Miller
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  • #9
    Wil Wheaton
    “Be honest.
    Be kind.
    Be honorable.
    Work hard.
    And always be awesome.”
    ― Wil Wheaton
    56 likes

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  • #10
    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    ― Marvin Bell
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  • #11
    John Steinbeck
    “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
    why.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: friends, friendship
    2393 likes

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  • #12
    “Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
    ― Colm Tóibín
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  • #13
    Wil Wheaton
    “Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.”
    ― Wil Wheaton
    465 likes

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  • #14
    Ama Ata Aidoo
    “Humans, not places, make memories.”
    ― Ama Ata Aidoo
    tags: memories
    1497 likes

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  • #15
    “If she let herself, she’d drown in a world of pain”
    ― Julia Hoban, Willow
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  • #16
    “I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you”
    ― Julia Hoban, Willow
    tags: protection, sweet
    100 likes

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  • #17
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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  • #18
    Johanna Lindsey
    “Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
    ― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild
    1988 likes

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  • #19
    “...her hand closes on smooth metal. Her fingers test the sharpness of the edge. Perfect. It's a fresh blade.
    The girls' voices rustle in her head. Their clamoring pushes out all rational thought. She rolls up her sleeve.
    The bite of the blade kills the noise. It wipes out the memory of those staring faces. Willow looks at her arm, at the life springing from her. Tiny pinpricks of red that blossom into giant peonies.”
    ― Julia Hoban, Willow
    tags: cutting, willow
    100 likes

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  • #20
    Heidi Heilig
    “Sometimes fate makes choices for us.”
    ― Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere
    tags: nix
    30 likes

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  • #21
    Shūsaku Endō
    “Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
    ― Shusaku Endo
    tags: weakness
    1528 likes

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  • #22
    Michelle Hodkin
    “If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
    tags: love
    1400 likes

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  • #23
    E. Lockhart
    “I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
    I like a twist of meaning.
    I endure.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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  • #24
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I love you.Thorns and All.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
    44 likes

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    Sarah J. Maas
    “I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
    tags: feyre, fire, love, passion, tamlin
    952 likes

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  • #26
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
    ― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
    tags: romance
    1388 likes

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  • #27
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    165218 likes

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  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177056 likes

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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
    148388 likes

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  • #30
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130139 likes



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