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    Donna Tartt
    “But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
    Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    John Keats
    “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
    ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats
    tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: pain, storm, summer
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    Andrew Boyd
    “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
    ― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
    tags: compassion, destiny, empathy, pain, universe
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    “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
    ― C.R. Strahan
    tags: forgiveness, pain, self-perception, survivor, victim
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
    but to be fearless in facing them.

    Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
    for the heart to conquer it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: danger, fearlessness, pain, perseverance
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: life, pain, ships
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    Veronica Roth
    “But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: grief, love, pain, sadness
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    Rob Sheffield
    “It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.”
    ― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
    tags: loss, love, pain
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    Veronica Roth
    “I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: betrayal, hurt, pain, trust
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    Veronica Roth
    “It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: pain
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: boggs, finnick, funny, humour, hunger-games, katniss, mockingjay, odair, suzanne-collins, witty
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    John Green
    “It's not because I want to make out with her."
    Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: funny
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me."
    "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: funny, humor
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    Wendy Mass
    “Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
    All the time.”
    ― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
    tags: flotsam, funny, humor, jeremy-fink, jetsam, keys, lizzy, wendy-mass, what-i-always-think
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    Cassandra Clare
    “aren't you, uh... reproducing?

    "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, funny
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    Victoria Schwab
    “How many men would she have to turn to dust before one took her seriously?”
    ― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful
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    Victoria Schwab
    “Perhaps she was glass. But glass is only brittle until it breaks. Then it’s sharp.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful
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    Victoria Schwab
    “Victor stared at the wall as if it were still a window. “He doesn’t know how patient you are,” he said. “Doesn’t know you like I do.” Eli cleaned the blood from his hand. “No,” he said softly. “No one ever has.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: love
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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