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#1

“You have arrived when you are so happy being you, that you don’t even think about being anybody else – especially the you that you were yesterday…”
― Daniel Mangena

tags: happiness, happy

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#2

“No need to be afraid. I’m just a Holon.”
“Huh?”
“A Holon. What are you?”
“You mean who am I?” I correct him.
“No, what are you?”
“I’m not a what. I’m a who.”
“How can you be a who if you’re not a what?”
“What?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: alien, brain, middle-grade, science, what, what-are-you, who, who-are-you

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#3

“He had the gift of the gab and could sell sand to Arabs. Hell, he could sell a bag of dildos to a nun – no joke”
― matthew bracey, Steel Dogs

tags: dildo-quotes, funny-quotes, gift-of-words, humorous-quotes, selling-success-quotes

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#4

“Nothing that happened in the past is anything we can change. And it shouldn’t interfere with the happiness of the present.”
― Linda Armstrong, Mission: Subhero

tags: coding, coming-of-age, entertaining, humorous, original, overcoming-challenges, random-acts-of-kindness, technology, young-adult

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#5

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

tags: affirmations, author, c-toni-graham, commitment, inspirational, ya-author

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#6

“I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living,
my baby you'll be.”
― Robert N. Munsch, Love You Forever

tags: family

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#7

“We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

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#8

“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: magic, science

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#9

“When Ada disappeared into the trees, it was like a part of the richness of the world had gone with her. He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better. -Cold Mountain”
― Charles Frazier

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#10

“Constant vigilance!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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#11

“We Are brothers, tied by blood, in our veins, what we spill. But it is a deadly secret that will forever bind us.”
― Tina Traverse, Destiny of the Vampire

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#12

“You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses

tags: love, poetry

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#13

“Avoiding other people was his new goal in life.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

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#14

“Today we are not put up on the platforms and sold at the courthouse square. But we are forced to sell our strength, our time, our souls during almost every hour that we live. We have been freed from one kind of slavery only to be delivered into another. Is this freedom?”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: capitalism, freedom, slavery

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#15

“What turns to stone is inside you.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

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#16

“—I told you, we must cut out imagination. In everyone...Extirpate imagination. Nothing but surgery, nothing but surgery will do!”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, WE

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#17

“They held each other and kissed and pushed each others' darkness into the corner, believing in each others' light, each others' dream.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

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#18

“The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

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#19

“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
― Heath Sommer

tags: the-manufactured-identity

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#20

“She watched hungrily for visitors from out of town, threw open her arms at the slightest hint of a wind and at night she struggled Jacob-like against the ocean pressing down on her.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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#21

“He observed his hostess attentively from under his shaggy brows, and noted a subtle change which had transformed her from the listless woman he had known into a being who, for the moment, seemed palpitant with the forces of life. Her speech was warm and energetic. There was no repression in her glance or gesture. She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#22

“You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.”
― Graham Greene, Orient Express

tags: monarchy, theif

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#23

“La distance est un vain mot, la distance n'existe pas!”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

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#24

“Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.”
― Stephenie Meyer

tags: edward, esme, midnight-sun

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#25

“It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

tags: domestic-violence, passion, tear, veil, violence

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#26

“Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: a-wizard-of-earthsea, dark, earthsea, life, self

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#27

“Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?—come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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#28

“And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence. (page 402)”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

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#29

“When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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#30

“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
― R.D. Ronald

tags: admire, bitch, confidence, critic, inspirational, life, writing

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