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#1

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

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#2

“If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus-waters, greater-good, life

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#3

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: an, augustus, augustus-waters, can-t, have, i, love, true, why

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#4

“I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.”
― John Green

tags: augustus-waters, hazel-grace-lancaster, john-green, tfios, the-fault-in-our-stars

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#5

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

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#6

“I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#7

“I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#8

“Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: animals, man, peace, people, self-acceptance

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#9

“How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#10

“This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: love

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#11

“No one is exempt from grief.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#12

“At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: magic

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#13

“Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: good-and-evil, philosophy

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#14

“For who was in thrall to whom, really? And could it ever be known? Each agent working in collusion and antagonism - like the cold and the sun alike creating a deadly spear of ice... Who is in thrall to whom? And while you wait to learn, the deadly icicle, formed by all opposing forces, falls and drives its cold nail into penetrable flesh.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: nature, power

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#15

“I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober and intense, my school days brought me up against political crimes against Animals, my love life imploded and my lover died, and if I had any life's work of my own, I haven't found it yet, except in animal husbandry, if you could call it that.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: bad-luck, destiny, fate, free-will

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#16

“You and Sven and Sven. You're my family. I like you and you like me and we all helped each other back there. So isn't that family?”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

tags: family, love

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#17

“What was wrong with her? Why did things like this keep happening to her? Love wasn't supposed to hurt, yet it felt like all she knew when it came to love was pain. Every time she opened her heart, she just got burned. Or, in this case, frozen. And she was getting sick and tired of it.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

tags: betrayal, heartbreak, loss, love

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#18

“Olaf was a genius. This, she realized, watching the snowman struggle, was love. Olaf had been willing to put himself in danger because he didn't want to see her get hurt. Love wasn't the canned romantic declarations. That was nothing but fluff. That was what Hans had thrown at her and what she had mistaken for love. Pure, true love was what Olaf was showing her right now - sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

tags: love, sacrifice, true-love

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#19

“Love... It only serves to make one weak...”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

tags: love, love-is-weakness

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#20

“Faeries can be quite mean if they are provoked.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

tags: faeries, maleficent

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#21

“From the other side of the hill, two enormous black wings appeared through the mist. Then a pair of sharp, twisted horns. Slowly, Maleficent rose into the air, looking like a creature from hell. Behind her, there was only mist. No army of her own. No faeries or creatures. Just Maleficent.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

tags: maleficent

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#22

“It was a lonely place. A place for the dark-hearted. It's where I deserve to be, Maleficent told herself every time she arrived. For only someone with a heart as dark as mine could do something so evil to a girl with a heart as light as Aurora's.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

tags: darkness, evil, loneliness, maleficent

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#23

“It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same.”
― Sang-Sun Park, The Tarot Cafe, #2

tags: past, regret, regrets

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#24

“Aurora looked into the mirror and smiled. She was pretty. She was a royal princess. There was about to be a ball. These were things she could, once in a while, allow herself to be happy about.”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

tags: beauty, happiness, princess-aurora, royalty

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#25

“When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.”
― Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 7

tags: acting, daredevil, drama, the-jester, theater

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#26

“I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, I rise! Daredevil imprisons me, I escape! That's because stories have power! He who controls the narrative controls the audience, and you're all the audience, every one of you. As they say, the world's a stage...”
― Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 7

tags: audience, daredevil, storytelling, the-jester, theater

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#27

“New York City is a tinderbox. The Sons of the Serpent - a white supremacist group with a twisted history, deep pockets, and long reach - declared it a combat zone. As they have many times before, they're unashamedly ginning bigotry and hatred into violence and bloodshed. But this time, they've gotten smart about it. Instead of parading through the streets in hoods and robes... they've gone undercover. Dozens upon dozens of them, hiding inside the New York justice system so they can control the law. Control the people. And as God is my witness, I will drive them out and strike them down... no matter what the cost.”
― Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 7

tags: bigotry, daredevil, hatred, racism, sons-of-the-serpent, violence

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#28

“Right now, I've got the weight of several worlds on my shoulders. My best friend is living in a cancer ward, and there's nothing I can do for him. The Serpents have hired the Jester to spark race riots with faked news stories, and I don't know how to smoke him out. My enemies are hiding all around, watching everything I do, and I can't find them. For the first time in months I find myself in the familiar, paralyzing grip of overwhelming depression.”
― Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 7

tags: daredevil, depression, racism, sons-of-the-serpent, the-jester

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#29

“You're not perfect. Sometimes, you can be a real jerk. Not on purpose. Just sometimes. But no matter what, you are a man of integrity. That is your defining characteristic. You can't see this, but it comes off you so strong that I have watched Avengers be intimidated by it. Be inspired by it. Your integrity carries a weight you can't imagine. It has meaning.”
― Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 7

tags: avengers, daredevil, foggy-nelson, integrity

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#30

“Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.”
― Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 7

tags: daredevil, mysticism

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