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#1

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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#2

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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#3

“Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: blue, gansey, life, raven-boys, safe

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#4

“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

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#5

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

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#6

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#7

“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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#8

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading-secrets

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#9

“I am a bad person trying very hard to be a good person.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Raven King

tags: renee-walker

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#10

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#11

“- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself.
- But your yourself sucks!
- It is, lamentably, all I have.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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#12

“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: life, love

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#13

“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

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#14

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

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#15

“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: life

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#16

“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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#17

“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness.
Her raven boys.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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#18

“Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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#19

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#20

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#21

“Dying's a boring side effect.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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#22

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

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#23

“There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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#24

“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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#25

“You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: catch-22

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#26

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty

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#27

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#28

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#29

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#30

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

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