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#1

“You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

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#2

“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: class, life

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#3

“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#4

“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

tags: crooked-kingdom, fear, inej-ghafa

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#5

“The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#6

“Tears don't become us."
"What becomes us?"
"Action.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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#7

“Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

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#8

“The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: gansey, gwenllian, the-raven-cycle, the-raven-king

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#9

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

tags: philosophy

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#10

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, narrator, the-great-gatsby

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#11

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#12

“The future is wide and wild and full of promise, but it is precarious, too. Seize on every opportunity that comes your way and cling to it, lest it be washed back out to sea.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#13

“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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#14

“May your sky be clear, may your sweet smile be bright and serene, may you be blessed for that moment of bliss that you gave to another lonely, grateful heart! My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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#15

“we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do. I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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#16

“at this moment a thousand valves have opened in my head, and I must let myself flow in a river of words, or I shall choke”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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#17

“What am I doing here in this endless winter?”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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#18

“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

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#19

“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: antolini, catcher-in-the-rye, inspirational

586 likes

#20

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, censorship

2788 likes

#21

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#22

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#23

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

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#24

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

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#25

“Time vanishes behind those who leave this world, and the older I get the more my past years draw together.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

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#26

“And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: heart, performance, reflection, solitude, soul

57 likes

#27

“Man’s misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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#28

“At twenty-nine, life no longer held any brightness for him, but Voltaire supplied him with man-made wings.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

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#29

“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird

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#30

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: destiny, fate, fortune, learning-process, meaning, value

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