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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Colleen Hoover
    “Luckily, a Wi-Fi connection and a credit card make it easy to live life completely indoors in Manhattan. Anything and everything a person could possibly need can be delivered. Funny how one of the most populated cities in the world can double as a paradise for agoraphobics.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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    Colleen Hoover
    “I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
    tags: love, self
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  • #4
    Colleen Hoover
    “Have you ever heard of people referred to as’Chronics?’ Prone to chronic tragedy. One terrible thing after another. Some families are lucky enough to never experience a single tragedy. But then there are those families that seem to have tragedies waiting on the back burner. What can go wrong, goes wrong. And then gets worse.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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  • #5
    Colleen Hoover
    “I have to stop looking at my life through my mother’s glasses.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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    Colleen Hoover
    “Ivy covers the left side of the house, but instead of charming, it’s threatening—like a slow-moving cancer.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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  • #7
    Colleen Hoover
    “A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book. The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying, but completely exposed.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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  • #8
    Colleen Hoover
    “I’m sure it’s mostly in my head, but that doesn’t put me at ease, because the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Verity
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  • #9
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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  • #10
    Alice Feeney
    “Don’t spend all of your ambition on other people’s dreams.”
    ― Alice Feeney , Daisy Darker
    tags: daisydarker
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  • #11
    Alice Feeney
    “The only nobodies in this world are the people who pretend to be somebody; the people who think they are better than other people because of the way they choose to look, or speak, or vote, or pray, or love.”
    ― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker
    tags: nobodies-daisydarker
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  • #12
    Alice Feeney
    “People are not the same but different, they are different but the same.”
    ― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker
    tags: daisydarker
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  • #13
    Alice Feeney
    “When you know you can’t make long-term plans, it’s easy to let yourself make short-term mistakes.”
    ― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker
    tags: daisydarker
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    Alice Feeney
    “Nana taught us that the devil is not a fictional man with a red cape and horns; he’s the voice inside our heads that tells us to do things we shouldn’t; he’s the eyes that pretend not to see, and the ears that pretend not to hear. He’s you, he’s me, he’s all of us.”
    ― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker
    tags: daisydarker
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  • #15
    Alice Feeney
    “There are times we all stand still while the ghosts of our pasts run by.”
    ― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker
    tags: daisydarker
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    Alka Joshi
    “I never knew there was a place where you could go look at books, much less borrow them, then return them when you are through looking. Imagine! Something that precious!”
    ― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
    tags: books, libraries
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  • #17
    Alka Joshi
    “Be humble for you are made of earth Be noble for you are made of stars. —SERBIAN PROVERB”
    ― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
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  • #18
    Alka Joshi
    “If you want the rose, you must put up with the thorn. —HINDU PROVERB”
    ― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
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    Alka Joshi
    “There's more power in keeping a secret than in betraying it.”
    ― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
    tags: betrayal, knowledge, lies, power, secrets
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  • #20
    Anne Frank
    “Ordinary people don’t know how much books can mean to someone who’s cooped up.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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  • #21
    “To live in peace as long as the waters run in the rivers and creeks, and as long as the stars and moon endure.”
    ― Tamanend, The Peace Treaty
    tags: chiefs, founding-father, founding-of-pennsylvania, founding-of-philadelphia, native-american-wisdom, peace, pennsylvania, philadelphia, saints, treaty-of-shackamaxon
    99 likes

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  • #22
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “Earth Breathes in Us.”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall
    tags: air, earth, environmentalism, love, native-american, nature, peace, spiritual, unity
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  • #23
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “In Equality, There's No Authority.”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
    tags: equality, friendship
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  • #24
    “I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows.”
    ― Whitney Houston
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  • #25
    “I call it "Higher Power" not to exclude any cultures/religions, as I feel everyone is pointing in the same direction, with different names, from different perspectives.”
    ― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
    tags: higher-power, inclusive, spiritual
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  • #26
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “To disassociate darkness from evil.”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
    tags: anti-racism, night, peaceful, spirituality
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  • #27
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “In my time, love often followed trends, yet greater love grows through it all.”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
    tags: devotion, endurance, growth, love, relationships, romance, timeless, trends, truth, valentines
    401 likes

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  • #28
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “Blacks aren't bigger, it's documented in their tribal photos. (The quote that end's anti-Black racism)”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
    tags: anti-racism, equality, peace
    222 likes



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