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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.R.R. Tolkien
    “Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: eowyn, return-of-the-king
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    Mira Grant
    “And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.”
    ― Mira Grant
    tags: humor, siblings, zombies
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    Richelle Mead
    “I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
    tags: dimitri, humor, paranormal-romance, rose, urban-fantasy, vampire, young-adult-novels
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    Mira Grant
    “That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?”
    ― Mira Grant, Feed
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    Mira Grant
    “The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”
    ― Mira Grant, Feed
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Mira Grant
    “Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything.
    I've got mine. Do you?”
    ― Mira Grant, Feed
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: writing
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  • #10
    Anne Lamott
    “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: life, perfectionism, writing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, philosophy
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  • #12
    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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  • #13
    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
    tags: friendship
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  • #14
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'

    A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: eowyn, lord-of-the-rings
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  • #19
    Sarah Dessen
    “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: fantasy
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  • #21
    Marian Keyes
    “What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.”
    ― Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story
    tags: humor, paraphrased, stories
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  • #22
    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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #24
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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  • #26
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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