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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    C.S. Pacat
    “I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”
    ― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: headcolds, howl
    878 likes

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    C.S. Pacat
    “I lack," said Laurent, "the easy mannerisms that are usually shared with," you could see him pushing the words out, "a lover."
    "You lack the easy mannerisms that are usually shared with anyone," said Damen.”
    ― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two
    tags: captive-prince, damen, laurent
    555 likes

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  • #5
    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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    Marc-Uwe Kling
    “Ich meine, die Bibel hat doch alle Ingredienzien eines Dan-Brown-Bestsellers. Völkermord, Inzest, Vergewaltigung und irgendwas Abgefahrenes mit Religion.”
    ― Marc-Uwe Kling, Das Känguru-Manifest
    tags: religion, satire, satirisch
    28 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
    4476 likes

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  • #8
    Andreas Steinhöfel
    “Das habe ich nie vergessen. Dass man liebt, um die Kälte zu vergessen und den Winter zu vertreiben.”
    ― Andreas Steinhöfel, Die Mitte der Welt
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: honesty
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  • #10
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
    9975 likes

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  • #11
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
    "So?" said Kaz.
    "Well, usually it's just half the city.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, jesper-fahey, kaz-brekker
    2041 likes

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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: quotes
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    Alexander Pushkin
    “I want to understand you,
    I study your obscure language.”
    ― Alexander Pushkin
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  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Madeline Miller
    “We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, patroclus, the-song-of-achilles
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    Bryan Lee O'Malley
    “This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called, 'We hate you, please die.”
    ― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
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    C.S. Pacat
    “I miss you," said Laurent. "I miss our conversations.”
    ― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Typically, I didn't know what to say so I didn't say anything.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #21
    Josephine Angelini
    “You've got the killer instincts of a houseplant.”
    ― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed
    tags: houseplant, instinct
    245 likes

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  • #22
    Ray Bradbury
    “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: imagination, quality, skill, writers, writing
    1275 likes

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  • #23
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
    tags: books, people, reading
    395 likes

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  • #25
    Philip K. Dick
    “One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
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  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
    10923 likes

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  • #27
    Stuart Turton
    “How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
    ― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
    305 likes

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  • #28
    Stuart Turton
    “If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
    ― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
    244 likes

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  • #29
    James Baldwin
    “I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: inner-struggle
    119 likes

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    Dejan Stojanovic
    “My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic
    tags: dejan-stojanovic, feelings, literature, literature-quotes, loud, poetry-quotes, quotes, shy, shyness, thoughts, wisdom, words, world
    529 likes



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