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“How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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“There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

tags: dream, elizabeth-george-speare, witch-of-blackbird-pond

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#4

“Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager.
Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights."
"Oh." His polite tone had returned.
"I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction."
He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him.
"Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

tags: humor, wit

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#5

“And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

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#6

“Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. ”
― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters

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#7

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

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#8

“Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#9

“There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

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#10

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity

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#11

“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
-Gabriel Oak”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

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#12

“You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

tags: america-singer, life, love, maxon-schreave, world

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#13

“But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed

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#14

“When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed

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#15

“Statistics show that men are interested in three things: careers, sports, and sex. That's why they love professional cheerleaders.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

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#16

“Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?"

Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?"

"Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

tags: friendship, individuality, spirit

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#17

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

tags: cowardice, doubt, resolve, self-doubt

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#18

“Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.”
― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters

tags: judy-blume, summer-sisters

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#19

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: life

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#20

“It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.”
― Judy Blume, Forever...

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#21

“In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read:
“Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they’re telling their daughters, ‘These were my favorite books,’ ” she says. “I say, ‘Quit it! That’s the biggest turnoff!’
“You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, ‘You’re not ready to read this yet.’ ”
― Judy Blume

tags: children-s-literature

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#22

“You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.”
― Judy Blume, Forever...

tags: forgive, forgiveness, inspirational, life, love, peace

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#23

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: psychology

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#24

“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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#25

“I'd rather be a 'could-be' if I cannot be an 'are' because a 'could-be' is a 'maybe' who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a 'has-been' than a 'might-have-been' by far; for a 'might-have-been' has never been, but a 'has' was once an 'are.”
― Milton Berle

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#26

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: growth, heart, life, suffering

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#27

“You are in every line I have ever read.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: pip

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#28

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: new-beginnings

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#29

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

tags: exploration, home, new-beginnings

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#30

“Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next.”
― Mie Hansson

tags: continuation, inspirational-quotes, new-beginnings, optimism, rise-above, strong-words

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