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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
    "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: fred-weasley, george-weasley, ron-weasley
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Melissa Anelli
    “...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her.

    'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.”
    ― Melissa Anelli, Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
    "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
    ― Cassandra Clare
    tags: humor, jace-wayland, simon-lewis
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Stupid people are dangerous.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    L. Frank Baum
    “You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    tags: courage
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    L. Frank Baum
    “You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.

    The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz
    tags: friendship, queer
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    L. Frank Baum
    “I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy.

    "Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.”
    ― L. Frank Baum
    tags: dorothy, oz, wizard
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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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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    John Green
    “I try to live life so that I can live with myself.”
    ― John Green
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    John Green
    “You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    A.S. Neill
    “The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best”
    ― A.S. Neill
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    Brom
    “Don't let them win. Don't let them beat you. Don't let them steal your magic.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: don-t-let-them, inspirational, peter
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    Brom
    “If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: laugh, life
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    Brom
    “There is always something left to lose.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: lose
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  • #29
    “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
    tags: katsa, monster
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    “How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
    tags: katsa, power, strong, unfair, weak
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