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#1

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#2

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

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#3

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: humanity, humans, mankind, reality

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#4

“Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

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#5

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#7

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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#8

“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

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#9

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: imperfect, love

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#10

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

tags: secrets, truth

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#11

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: ghosts, haunt

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#12

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

tags: music, power-of-music

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#13

“Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.”
― Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing

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#14

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

tags: books, reading

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#15

“In the end....everything matters.”
― Jay Asher

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#16

“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”
― Dave Ramsey

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#17

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time

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#18

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

tags: be-anything, choice, future, inspirational, sarah-dessen, unbroken, wisdom

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#19

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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#20

“Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

tags: inspirational

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#21

“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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#22

“Books are more real when you read them outside.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

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#23

“Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

tags: banned-book, ya, young-adult

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#24

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: compassion, life, suffering

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#25

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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#26

“Luke is dead too, like Katie, I know, but this makes no difference. My grief will always be less important.”
― Jennifer Banash, Silent Alarm

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#27

“Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No one ever told me I had to add sugar but that’s life for you. It ain’t sweet.”
― Elizabeth Flock, Me & Emma

tags: lemonade, lemons, life-philosophy

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