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    Lauren Oliver
    “Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
    But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Suzanne Collins
    “It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: humor
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: humor, hunger-games, katniss, mellark, peeta, romance
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    Suzanne Collins
    “District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: young-adult-fiction
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: hunger-games-peeta
    818 likes

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    Michael Grant
    “No one vinces me, baby”
    ― Michael Grant, Fear
    tags: fear, gone, lana, michael-grant, sanjit
    67 likes

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    Neal Shusterman
    “I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: ambition, failure, irony, optimism
    861 likes

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    Neal Shusterman
    “You can't change laws without first changing human nature.'
    -Nurse Greta

    You can't change human nature without first changing the law.'
    -Nurse Yvonne”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
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    Neal Shusterman
    “It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
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    Neal Shusterman
    “I'm scared," he says.
    "I know," says the nurse.
    "I want you all to go to Hell."
    "That's natural.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: roland
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
    ― Neal Shusterman
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
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    Neal Shusterman
    “...the first sign of civilization is always trash.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: life-truths
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Everwild
    tags: heaven, hell
    69 likes

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    Neal Shusterman
    “That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: hayden
    170 likes

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  • #16
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
    4515 likes

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    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
    tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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  • #20
    Neal Shusterman
    “Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
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    Neal Shusterman
    “...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: human-nature
    768 likes

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    Neal Shusterman
    “In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: oversimplification
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  • #23
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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  • #24
    John Masefield
    “Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.”
    ― John Masefield, King Cole
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  • #25
    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
    21582 likes

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    Yann Martel
    “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Maria V. Snyder
    “Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies."

    He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.”
    ― Maria V. Snyder, Outside In
    tags: riley, trella
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    Calvin Coolidge
    “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
    ― Calvin Coolidge
    tags: attitude, attributed-no-source, determination, persistence
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.

    [Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
    ― ben franklin, The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: bishops, church-of-england, history, intolerance, new-england, pagans, persecution, protestants, puritans, religious-persecution, roman-catholic
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  • #30
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
    4145 likes



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