Quotes - Kishel Bactong (benisons) (Valencia City, B2, Philippines) Showing 1-30 of 255

#1

“AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPT
Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world. --Auggie”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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#2

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

4680 likes

#3

“That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#4

“It is a documented fact. I read it in People magazine.”
― Meg Cabot, Size 12 Is Not Fat

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#5

“So go ahead and
make your way

Back from the edge
of yesterday

No one knows what
Can't be known

'Cause when you start
You're all alone

But take enough steps
Take enough steps
Take enough steps

And someday
Someday you'll be home

---Heather Wells, Untitled”
― Meg Cabot, Size 12 Is Not Fat

tags: heather, own-song, size-12-is-not-fat

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#6

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome”
― Jane Austen

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#7

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

7128 likes

#8

“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: abilities, song-of-fire-and-ice, tyrion-lannister

1086 likes

#9

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#10

“You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

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#11

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

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#12

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#13

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6771 likes

#14

“I realized that the one person who could break my heart is the only one who should have it.”
― Julie James, Just the Sexiest Man Alive

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#15

“Never send a boy to do a woman’s job, Irma.” - Payton Kendall”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

tags: julie-james

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#16

“I would have done it for you in a heartbeat”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

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#17

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

13831 likes

#18

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: adoration, fidelity, love

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#19

“I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach... I think I'm in love with you... Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.”
― Jill Mansell, To the Moon and Back

tags: love

50 likes

#20

“Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

tags: intent, pain, suicide

2775 likes

#21

“Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

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#22

“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

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#23

“We are all broken in one way or another. It's how we put those pieces back together that matters".”
― Maggi Myers, The Final Piece

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#24

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

tags: daring

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#25

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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#26

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

tags: character, compassion, courage, friendship, honor, humanity, kindness

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#27

“If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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#28

“MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:

WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.”
― R. J. Palacio, Wonder

tags: kindness, precept, righteousness

982 likes

#29