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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there.
    "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.”
    ― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: humor
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    John Green
    “I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: colonel
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
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    Irvine Welsh
    “You can't lie to your soul.”
    ― Irvine Welsh, Porno
    tags: honesty, introspection
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity
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    Cassandra Clare
    “That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed.
    Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. "Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising' he means 'morally deficient.'"
    "No, I mean enterprising," said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done'.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
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    Cassandra Clare
    “You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?"

    "That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
    tags: city-of-fallen-angels, jace-lightwood, jordan-kyle
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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    A.A. Milne
    “I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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    Sue Grafton
    “Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
    ― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: dumbledore, philosophy
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    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    ― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
    tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy
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    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: absence, loss
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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
    tags: attitude, inspirational
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    Mary Stewart
    “Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
    ― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills
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    Cassandra Clare
    “It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.”
    ― Cassandra Clare
    tags: city-of-bones, mortal-instruments
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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    W.B. Yeats
    “I have spread my dreams under your feet.
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
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    Victor Hugo
    “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    ― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
    tags: love, madness
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    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
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    Joseph Joubert
    “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
    ― Joseph Joubert
    tags: books, reading
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
    tags: human, hurt
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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: death, life
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    Ken Kesey
    “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    tags: relationships
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