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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: inspirational, oscar-wilde
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Kiss a lover,
    Dance a measure,
    Find your name
    And buried treasure.

    Face your life,
    It's pain,
    It's pleasure,
    Leave no path untaken.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: choice, dancing, life, love, name, neil-gaiman, pain, personality, pleasure, the-graveyard-book, treasure
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books, bookworms, love-for-books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: childhood, happiness
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “And I realized—I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “There you are. I've been looking for you.

    His first words to me— not a lie at all, not a threat to keep those faeries away.

    Thank you for finding her for me.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, feyre, rhysand
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
    And I was not a mouse.
    I was a wolf.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, acomaf, feyre
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “I was a dreamer born into the Court of Nightmares," Mor said. "So I got out.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
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    Julian Barnes
    “This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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    Julian Barnes
    “How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: biography, life, memory
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    Julian Barnes
    “Every love story is a potential grief story.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
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    Julian Barnes
    “There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
    tags: loneliness, longing, sehnsucht
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    Julian Barnes
    “Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, on the other hand, unlucky) - it divides into those who have endured grief, and those who haven't. These divisions are absolute; they are tropics we cross.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
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    Julian Barnes
    “What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?”
    ― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
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    Victoria Aveyard
    “To rise. And rise alone.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm
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    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars
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    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability
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    Madeline Miller
    “Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

    “You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”

    “I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “Circe, he says, it will be all right.

    It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what is means to be alive.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: death, life, mortality
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    Pat Barker
    “We’re going to survive–our songs, our stories. They’ll never be able to forget us. Decades after the last man who fought at Troy is dead, their sons will remember the songs their Trojan mothers sang to them. We’ll be in their dreams–and in their worst nightmares too.”
    ― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls
    tags: briseis, pat-barker, queen-briseis, slavery, suvival, the-silence-of-the-girls, trojan-war
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