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    Maya Angelou
    “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
    ― maya angelou
    tags: humor, inspirational, life
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    Amanda Lovelace
    “once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself.   - how’s that for a happily ever after?”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
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    Vera Nazarian
    “Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.

    Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks.

    There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers.

    There’s a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, warming your heart.

    There is mystery unfolding.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: christmas, companion, companionship, fire, hearth, holiday, holidays, mystery, warmth, winter, yule, yule-log
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    Bess Streeter Aldrich
    “Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. Even though you grew up and found you could never quite bring back the magic feeling of this night, the melody would stay in your heart always - a song for all the years.”
    ― Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years
    tags: christmas
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    Maya Angelou
    “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed-no-source, conformity, normal, unsourced
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Stephen King
    “This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
    ― Stephen King, The Shining
    tags: philosophy, scary
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King, The Shining
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    Mark Twain
    “The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
    ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    tags: inertia, tradition
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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    Eileen Chang
    “Shijun, we can't go back.”
    ― Eileen Chang
    tags: half-a-lifelong-romance, life, loss, love, regret, romance, time
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    Eileen Chang
    “Thinking is painful business.”
    ― Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City
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    Eileen Chang
    “She wasn’t a bird in a cage. A bird in a cage, when the cage is opened, can still fly away. She was a bird embroidered onto a screen — a white bird in clouds of gold stitched onto a screen of melancholy satin. The years passed; the bird’s feathers darkened, mildewed, and were eaten by moths, but the bird stayed on the screen even in death.”
    ― Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City
    tags: craftsmanship, imagery, jasmine-tea, women
    21 likes

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    Anna Akhmatova
    “That was when the ones who smiled
    Were the dead, glad to be at rest.”
    ― Anna Akhmatova
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: creative-process, escape, novels, reality, writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: goals, inspirational, success
    380 likes

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    Joy Harjo
    “I understood why women went back to their abusers. The monster wasn't your real husband, he was a bad dream - an alien of sorts - who took over the spirit of your beloved one. He entered and left your husband. It was your real love you welcomed back in.”
    ― Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave
    tags: alcoholism, domestic-violence, heartbreaking-quotes, native-memoir
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    Joy Harjo
    “There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.”
    ― Joy Harjo
    tags: poetry
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    Joy Harjo
    “I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.”
    ― Joy Harjo
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    Joy Harjo
    “It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics, mathematics, poetry and biology through the complex beauty of such a perfect structure.

    It's also possible to travel the whole globe and learn nothing.”
    ― Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems
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    Joy Harjo
    “I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you as myself”
    ― Joy Harjo
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    Joy Harjo
    “All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.”
    ― Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems
    tags: justice, poetry
    33 likes



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