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#1

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

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#2

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-ship-storms

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#3

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott

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#4

“Love is a great beautifier.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#5

“Let us be elegant or die!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: femininity

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#6

“Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott

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#7

“Be worthy love, and love will come.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#8

“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#9

“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#10

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#11

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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#12

“The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

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#13

“They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

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#14

“It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

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#15

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#16

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#17

“Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.”
― David Mamet

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#18

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, fiction, on-fiction, tolkien, writing

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#19

“Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

tags: always, elect, king, narnia, queen

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#20

“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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#21

“But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Elijah

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#22

“She is you, she is your mother, your father, your country. She is Poland.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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#23

“As for me, I remained a few moments longer.

I waved.

No one waved back.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#24

“You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

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#25

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

tags: hell, love, safe

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#26

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#27

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
― P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money

tags: adeptness, dexterity, men, poise, superiority, women

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