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    Cassandra Clare
    “Hope is all that keeps us going sometimes, biscuit”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
    tags: city-of-heavenly-fire, clary-fray, inspriational, pg-95
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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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    John Milton
    “Freely we serve
    Because we freely love, as in our will
    To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
    ― John Milton
    tags: freedom, love
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places," said Jace. "Perhaps hearts are the same.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
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    Ai Yazawa
    “I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.”
    ― Ai Yazawa
    tags: life, nana
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  • #7
    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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  • #8
    Kiera Cass
    “Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The One
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Oh no, Raphael, please don't leave me," Magnus said in a monotone. "Where would I be without the light of your sweet smile? If you go, I will throw myself upon the ground and weep."
    "Will you?" asked Raphael, raising one thin eyebrow. "Because if you do, I will stay and watch the show.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago
    tags: baneful-magnus, little-shit-raphael, lovely-sass, marvelous, sweet
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    Ai Yazawa
    “Don't just give up, Hachiko.
    Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time.
    If you keep getting up, you win.”
    ― Ai Yazawa
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  • #11
    “I really hate pain.
    I'd pull my own soul out if it meant I could stop the pain.”
    ― Yun Kouga, Loveless, Volume 06
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  • #12
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    ― A.J. Cronin
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  • #13
    Leonard Woolf
    “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
    ― Leonard Woolf
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  • #14
    “Please, please.
    Don't cry like that.
    I'm going to go mad.
    I don't want to see you again.
    I need to see you again...
    I'm sick of it.
    Because as soon as we have to say goodbye...
    I want to die.
    (Ritsuka)”
    ― Yun Kouga
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  • #15
    Lauren Oliver
    “When you’re young you just want to be older, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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  • #16
    “But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you.”
    ― Yun Kouga, Loveless, Volume 05
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  • #17
    Cassandra Clare
    “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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    Ai Yazawa
    “Being alone and being lonely are two different things.”
    ― Ai Yazawa
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  • #19
    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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  • #20
    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
    tags: curiosity
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
    5654 likes

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  • #25
    Rita Mae Brown
    “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
    tags: love
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Pearl S. Buck
    “Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    tags: love
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  • #29
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    tags: contentment
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  • #30
    Pearl S. Buck
    “If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
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  • #31
    Pearl S. Buck
    “I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck, A Bridge for Passing
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