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    Madeline Miller
    “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: autumn, fall, solitude
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    Lauren DeStefano
    “Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
    ― Lauren DeStefano, Wither
    tags: autumn
    1043 likes

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  • #4
    Andrea Gibson
    “Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
    they're falling in love with the ground.”
    ― Andrea Gibson
    tags: autumn, love
    886 likes

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    J.M. Barrie
    “Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: gender-stereotypes
    1363 likes

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    J.M. Barrie
    “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: inspirational
    1214 likes

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    J.M. Barrie
    “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: growing-up
    794 likes

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  • #8
    J.M. Barrie
    “Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
    ― J.M. Barrie
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  • #9
    “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”
    ― James V. Hart, Hook
    tags: dreams, love, misattributed-jm-barrie, misattributed-peter-pan
    950 likes

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  • #10
    J.M. Barrie
    “Just always be waiting for me.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: adult, barrie, classics, fantasy, j-m, pan, peter, young
    283 likes

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  • #12
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, fire, star, universe
    4492 likes

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    Rachel Carson
    “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
    ― Rachel Carson
    tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: answers, love, true, universe
    3340 likes

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  • #15
    Ray Bradbury
    “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: sense-of-wonder, universe
    1189 likes

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    Steven Moffat
    “The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who, inspirational, miracles, pandorica-opens, universe
    1033 likes

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  • #17
    Walt Whitman
    “These are the days that must happen to you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: live-in-the-moment, live-life
    720 likes

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  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
    "He's the sun god," I said.
    "That's not what I meant.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
    tags: apollo, gods, hot, olympians, percy-jackson, sun, thalia
    6051 likes

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  • #19
    E.E. Cummings
    “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, moon, stars, sun
    2401 likes

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    Susan Polis Schutz
    “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
    ― susan polis schutz
    tags: dance, flowers, happiness, happy, joy, summer, sun, wild
    990 likes

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  • #21
    “And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: fun, moon, sun
    397 likes

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  • #22
    Walt Disney Company
    “After the rain, the sun will reappear.
    There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”
    ― Walt Disney Company
    tags: joy, pain, rain, sun
    191 likes

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  • #23
    Warsan Shire
    “all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.”
    ― Warsan Shire
    tags: night, phone, sun, warsan, warsan-shire
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  • #24
    Ray Bradbury
    “Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: stars, sun
    206 likes

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  • #25
    David Gemmell
    “It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.
    It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'
    Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.”
    ― David Gemmell, Sword in the Storm
    tags: anger, emotion, life, philosophy, sun
    91 likes

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  • #26
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: dandelions
    107 likes

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    Holly Black
    “... on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress.”
    ― Holly Black
    tags: bare-feet, blonde, cold, coldest, dandelions, daughter-memories, flowers, girl, hair, sister, summer, sun, sundress, young
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    Warsan Shire
    “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
    ― Warsan Shire
    tags: day, end, home, warsan-shire
    1376 likes

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  • #29
    Claude Monet
    “I must have flowers, always, and always.”
    ― Claude Monet
    tags: flowers
    826 likes

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  • #30
    Iris Murdoch
    “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
    ― Iris Murdoch
    tags: flowers, joy
    275 likes



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