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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: funny
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I was too dazed to follow right away, because there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy. And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap - and kill me. I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
    tags: hollow-city, ransom-riggs
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  • #12
    “I must apologize, it seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.”
    ― Millard in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
    tags: millard, ransom-riggs
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    Rick Riordan
    “Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
    Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?
    Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse.
    Percy: what could be worse than hummus?
    Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: cereal, kill
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I don't feel sad. For just now, I don't feel scared. I feel, for right now, well, kind of triumphant.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: inspirational, triumphant
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  • #17
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: pain, revolutionary, sadness, self-harm
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “You can't break my heart, she cries, breathy and furious. You can't own my soul. What I have, I made, what I have is mine. What I have I made, what I have is mine.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: cutting, self-harm
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  • #20
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.

    Girl slips on headphones. World gone.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: music, world-gone
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I'm no stranger to fucking up.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: failing, fucking-up, mistake, mistakes, screwing-up
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Everyone has that moment, I think, the moment when something so...momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
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  • #23
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: angelic, friendship, life
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  • #24
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: believe, heart-break, heartache, promise
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “+"I think u are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when u don’t know how to be.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: mind-fuck
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I'm tired and angry at me. For letting myself get smaller and smaller in the hopes that he would notice me more. But how can someone notice you if you keep getting smaller?”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: angry, self, smaller, tired
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  • #27
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Each aberration of my skin is a song. Press your mouth against me. You will hear so much singing.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
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    Kathleen Glasgow
    “I blink at myself. I could be a girl, a real girl. I could be a possibility, with Mikey. Couldn't I?”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: love, love-possibility, real-girl
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  • #29
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: loneliness
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  • #30
    Kathleen Glasgow
    “Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.”
    ― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
    tags: don-t-die, friendship
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