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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    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
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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  • #11
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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  • #12
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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  • #13
    John Green
    “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books
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    John Green
    “It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, john-green, reading, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.

    Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book.

    OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus, augustus-waters, gus, the-fault-in-our-stars
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  • #18
    John Green
    “New wars started even before the old ones were won”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Sometimes it seems that the universe wants to be noticed...”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “I want to leave a mark.

    But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, leave-a-mark, scars, van-houten-being-a-douche
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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  • #23
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Rick Yancey
    “How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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    Rick Yancey
    “I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: evan-walker
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  • #27
    Rick Yancey
    “You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, choices, fiction, horror, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
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    Rick Yancey
    “You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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    Rick Yancey
    “I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: evan-walker
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    Rick Yancey
    “We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, death, fiction, horror, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
    663 likes

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  • #31
    Rick Yancey
    “Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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