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#1

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: catatonia, coma, life

#2

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#3

“No art is possible without a dance with death.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: slaughter-house-five

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#4

“I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: jace-wayland

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#5

“Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

tags: strength, survival

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#6

“Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

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#7

“Talent is a spooky thing, and has a way of announcing itself quietly but firmly when the right time comes. Like certain addictive drugs, it comes as a friend long before you realize it’s a tyrant.”
― Stephen King, Revival

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#8

“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

tags: conflict, hurt-feelings

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#9

“They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

tags: grudges

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#10

“Stick with the nice boys...bad boys don't bring you coffee in bed, I'll tell you that for free.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

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#11

“Hey police? I just saw the world's oldest, slowest kid climbing into Pleasantview Cemetery. Looked like he was dying to get in. Yeah, looked like a grave matter to me. Kidding? Oh no, I'm in dead earnest. Maybe you ought to dig into it.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

tags: death, humor

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#12

“It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

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#13

“Herself the crown jewel, of course. Brittle as cut stone, and about as likely as diamonds to crack. Clear and cold and perfect-looking. And the only thing I could count on, the only weapon at my disposal, was the fact that I could see clean through her.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham

tags: silkie-marsh, women

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#14

“He wore a white gown now, facing the free-stone ceiling, a cloth pulled up to his breast. You couldn't take him for sleeping, though, not when you've seen death before. Dead things looked heavy. Earthbound in a way living things don't.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham

tags: death

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#15

“And that was when I realized that she was actually a very good liar. Only good liars are surprised at being caught.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham

tags: liars, lying

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#16

“Like your zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.'
'No, stupid,' Leo said. 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

tags: funny, heroes-of-olympus, leo-valdez, percy-jackson, the-blood-of-olympus

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#17

“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

tags: trust

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#18

“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#19

“Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: books, ships, the-night-circus

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#20

“Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#21

“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: willful-ignorance

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#22

“It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: free-will, imprisonment, independence

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#23

“Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?"
"Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: effort, erin-morgenstern, marco-celia, the-night-circus

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#24

“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”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#25

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

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#26

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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#27

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

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#28

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: reading

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#29

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: romance

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#30

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

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