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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
    “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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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: existence, truth
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    Patrick Süskind
    “People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: alone, solitude, want
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    Patrick Süskind
    “He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: solitude
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Bloody Bones
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Bloody Bones
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: forgiveness
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  • #11
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: time
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: honesty, lies, truth
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: p-296, sohrab
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: morality, war
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: kite, runner, tourist
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    Gary Jennings
    “Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.”
    ― Gary Jennings, Aztec
    tags: memories
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  • #19
    Gary Jennings
    “Amor y tiempo son las únicas dos cosas en el mundo que no se pueden comprar, sólo gastar”
    ― Gary Jennings, Aztec
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    Gary Jennings
    “Pienso que te he amado siempre... pero no hablemos de lo pasado. Solamente te digo que te amo hoy y que te amaré mañana. Porque el pasado se ha ido. Los hoy y los mañanas serán todos los días que podrán ser. Y en cada uno de estos días te diré, te amo.”
    ― Gary Jennings, Aztec
    tags: amor, pasado, presente
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  • #21
    Gary Jennings
    “Los dioses han arreglado que por un tiempo estemos separados, para que nunca más lo estemos.”
    ― Gary Jennings, Aztec
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    Laini Taylor
    “It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreaming, dreams, goals, impossible
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  • #23
    Laini Taylor
    “I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: dreams, fireflys, nightmare, strenghth
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  • #24
    Laini Taylor
    “And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, laini-taylor, young-adult
    561 likes

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  • #25
    Laini Taylor
    “Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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  • #26
    Laini Taylor
    “You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: good-vs-bad, hate, kill
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    Laini Taylor
    “The library knows its own mind,” old Master Hyrrokkin told him, leading him back up the secret stairs. “When it steals a boy, we let it keep him.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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    Laini Taylor
    “There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: heartache, love, moon, unrequited-love
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  • #29
    Laini Taylor
    “Sometimes a moment is so remarkable that it carves out a space in time and spins there, while the world rushes on around it. This was one such.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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    Laini Taylor
    “He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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