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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
    tags: damned, fiction
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    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
    3777 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
    tags: betrayal, loyalty, relationships
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: aragorn, loyalty
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, interdependence, loyalty
    464 likes

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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions
    tags: angels, divinities, divinity, ethereal, the-heavens
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I choose to love you in silence…
    For in silence I find no rejection,

    I choose to love you in loneliness…
    For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

    I choose to adore you from a distance…
    For distance will shield me from pain,

    I choose to kiss you in the wind…
    For the wind is gentler than my lips,

    I choose to hold you in my dreams…
    For in my dreams, you have no end.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: love, love-quotes
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    Douglas Adams
    “To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “There is no end to our story.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “And I guess it’s a reminder that wanting and deserving aren’t the same thing.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: baghra
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Her grief is old, I reminded myself. And yet I didn’t think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “If men were ashamed when they should be, they’d have no time for anything else.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo
    tags: nina-zenik
    286 likes

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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Who didn’t want to think fate had a plan for him, that his hurts and failures had just been the prologue to a grander tale?”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “To live is to grieve.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
    tags: family, grief, life, loss, love, loved-ones, moving-on, relationships
    31 likes

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    M.L. Rio
    “Nothing is so exhausting as anguish.”
    ― M.L. Rio
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
    4737 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
    4374 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: hindsight, regret
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    2682 likes

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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love
    3944 likes

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    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    4005 likes

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    Madeline Miller
    “I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    836 likes

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    Leigh Bardugo
    “He needed her and she needed him. That was how most disasters began.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
    216 likes

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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
    tags: alex-stern, darlington, delusion, leigh-bardugo, love, ninth-house
    75 likes

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    Leigh Bardugo
    “If she died, her petty heart wanted to know who to haunt.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
    23 likes

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  • #30
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    tags: dream
    2463 likes



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