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    Isobelle Carmody
    “The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.”
    ― Isobelle Carmody, Alyzon Whitestarr
    tags: hurt, life, philosophical, wounds
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    Isobelle Carmody
    “Maruman does not loll.”
    ― Isobelle Carmody, The Keeping Place
    tags: absurd, accidental, cat, coincidence, funny, humor, humour, internet, lol, lolcat, loll, post-apocalypse, pre-meme
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    Isobelle Carmody
    “My heart belongs to you,' He promised.
    'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?'
    'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.”
    ― Isobelle Carmody, Greylands
    tags: idea, love, loved
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: part-i
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: inspirational, soul, spiritual-growth
    3301 likes

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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books
    630 likes

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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Memories are worse than bullets.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: secrets
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: trust
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: money
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: humor
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    Beatrix Potter
    “Thank goodness my education was neglected.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning
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    Beatrix Potter
    “Tuesday, November 17th. 1896

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    I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.”
    ― Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897
    tags: childhood, fairies, imagination, nostalgia
    92 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    tags: books, humor, television
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    Roald Dahl
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Twits
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    Roald Dahl
    “Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: food, humor
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    Roald Dahl
    “Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
    11234 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
    6182 likes

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    William Nicholson
    “I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: inspirational-prayer
    2283 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18122 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, old-books, reading
    3258 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: christianity
    2466 likes



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