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    Charles Dickens
    “Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: life
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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  • #5
    Catherine Fisher
    “Walls have ears.
    Doors have eyes.
    Trees have voices.
    Beasts tell lies.
    Beware the rain.
    Beware the snow.
    Beware the man
    You think you know.
    -Songs of Sapphique”
    ― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
    tags: beware, people-will-hurt-you, rain, snow, walls
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    Kiera Cass
    “It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Elite
    tags: together
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
    Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,” he said. “They just do it in better clothes.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
    tags: mal, nikolai, sturmhond
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “I hope you weren’t looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: nikolai-lantsov
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  • #10
    Laini Taylor
    “It's not like there's a law against flying."

    "Yes there is. The law of gravity.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: humor
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #12
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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  • #14
    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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  • #15
    Amie Kaufman
    “You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.”
    ― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
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  • #16
    Marie Rutkoski
    “He knew the law of such things: people in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark.”
    ― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
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    Ransom Riggs
    “Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: earth, mystery, stars, thought-provoking
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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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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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  • #20
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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  • #21
    Dr. Seuss
    “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Jay Kristoff
    “You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae
    tags: illuminae
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  • #23
    Amie Kaufman
    “I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.”
    ― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
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  • #24
    Pablo Picasso
    “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, procrastination
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  • #25
    Jay Kristoff
    “He presses the triggers. And like roses in his hands, death blooms.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae
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  • #26
    Amie Kaufman
    “Are you afraid?"

    "Yes."

    "Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."

    "I am still afraid.”
    ― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
    tags: science-fiction
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  • #27
    Amie Kaufman
    “You don’t understand the unbearable beauty of being you.”
    ― Amie Kaufman, This Shattered World
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  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: inspirational, women
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: gatsby, paradise
    1703 likes



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