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    “[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
    ― Jenny O'Connell, The Book of Luke
    tags: honesty, life, life-lessons, love
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    Jenna Black
    “Sorry,” I muttered. “Just because you’re an asshole doesn’t mean I have to be a bitch.”
    ― Jenna Black, Glimmerglass
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    Lissa Price
    “Did Cinderella ever consider fessing up to the prince, that night she was enjoying herself in the fancy ball gown? Did she even think of telling him, oh, by the way, Prince, the coach isn’t mine, I’m really a filthy little barefoot servant on borrowed time? No. She took her moment. And then went quietly away after midnight.”
    ― Lissa Price, Starters
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  • #4
    Raymond Chandler
    “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye
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  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #6
    Veronica Rossi
    “The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
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  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #8
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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  • #9
    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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  • #10
    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
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  • #11
    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
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  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #13
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Veronica Rossi
    “She looked up. “A world of nevers under a never sky.”
    She fit in well then, he thought. A girl who never shut up.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
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  • #15
    Veronica Rossi
    “Fall off your own roof.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
    tags: humor, perry, roar
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  • #16
    Veronica Rossi
    “Aria... everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
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  • #17
    Veronica Rossi
    “If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
    tags: courage, fear, perry
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  • #18
    عمرو سلامة
    “اعرف ان فشلك الوحيد الحقيقى هوا الاستسلام خصوصا لو من غير اشتباك”
    ― عمرو سلامة, شاب كشك في رحلة البحث عن الجادون
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  • #19
    Julia Quinn
    “You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
    ― Julia Quinn
    tags: romance, writing
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  • #20
    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “A slow, wry smile teased Daemon’s lips. "Simmer down, Kitten, before I have to get you a ball of yarn to play with."

    Annoyance flared deep inside me. "Don’t start with me, jerk-face.”
    ― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Opal
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  • #21
    Richelle Mead
    “I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
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  • #22
    Richelle Mead
    “Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, love
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    Richelle Mead
    “I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
    tags: adrian-ivashkov, love
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  • #24
    Jenna Black
    “Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible anymore, nor would I have to feel so dizzy and sick. Than maybe when I woke up, all of this would go away and I'd find it was all just a bad dream. The mist started to turn dark around the edges.....For the record: fainting sucks.”
    ― Jenna Black, Glimmerglass
    tags: fainting, glimmerglass, humor
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  • #25
    Alexandra Monir
    “There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.”
    ― Alexandra Monir, Timeless
    tags: courage, losing, winning
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  • #26
    Lissa Price
    “Everybody wants to be someone else," he says "Do you blame them?" he asks.”
    ― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story
    tags: the-old-man
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    Lissa Price
    “Would you like to be young again? Play any kind of sport you used to? All day long, with no soreness the next day?"

    "Who Wouldn't?”
    ― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story
    tags: the-old-man, walsh
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    Lissa Price
    “Take your pick. Be Somebody ... else.”
    ― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story
    tags: the-old-man
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  • #29
    Lissa Price
    “This is so ..." I can't find the word.
    "Wonderful? Amazing?" the Ender nurse offers.
    "Bizarre," I say as I watch the lips of the Starter move in the mirror.”
    ― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story
    tags: walsh
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    Lissa Price
    “But I've got a gun," she said, twirling it on two fingers.
    "A gun with bullets is worse than no gun at all.”
    ― Lissa Price, Portrait of a Marshal: The 2nd Unhidden Story
    tags: walsh
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