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#1

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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#2

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: heroes, inspirational

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#3

“Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

tags: leo-valdez

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#4

“You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

tags: baggage, disappointment, longing, sadness

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#5

“It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.”
― Natsume Sōseki, I am a Cat III

tags: humanity, suffering

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#6

“I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

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“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

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#8

“You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'"
"Sorry," Noah said. "I'm just not that big of a person.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

tags: mara-dyer, michelle-hodkin, noah-shaw, romance

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#9

“Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could eat her. I could drink her blood. She's the only person I would allow to be shrunk to microscopic size and explore me in a tiny submersible machine. She is wonderful and beautiful and sensitive and funny and sexy. She's too good for me, she's too good for anyone! All I could do was let her know. I said: "I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

tags: cheesy, love, romance, sexy, submarine, teen

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#10

“Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

tags: asshole, believe, cure, life, pain, rain, summer, winter

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#11

“It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: life

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#12

“Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.”
― Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat

tags: human, life-and-living, living, observe, selfish

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#13

“If the Creator should take the line that I am born to work and not to sleep, I would agree that I am indeed born to work but I would also make the unanswerable point that I cannot work unless I also rest.”
― Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat

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#14

“In the old days, a man was taught to forget himself. Today it is quite different: he is taught not to forget himself and he accordingly spends his days and nights in endless self-regard. Who can possibly know peace in such an eternally burning hell? The apparent realities of this awful world, even the beast lines of being, are all symptoms of that sickness for which the only cure lies in learning to forget the self.”
― Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat

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#15

“Ronan looked angry, but he was in the mood where he was going to look angry no matter what. "I don't know what I want. I don't know what the hell I am."
He got into the Camaro.
"You promised me," Gansey said through the open car door.
Ronan didn't look up."I know what I did, Gansey."
"Don't forget.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: camaro, i-love-them, raven-boys, raven-cycle, richard-gansey, ronan-lynch

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#16

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

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#17

“It had been a long time ago, but also, it was no time at all.
Sometimes, Gansey felt like his life was made up of a dozen hours that he could never forget.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: gansey, raven-boys, raven-cycle, richard-gansey-iii, time

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#18

“Ronan didn't sound very interested, but that was part of the Ronan Lynch brand. It was impossible to tell how deep his disinterest truly was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: disinterest

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#19

“You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again." For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

tags: grace-sam, pg-208

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#20

“You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

tags: family, love, money, parents, poverty

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#21

“What do you want, Adam?
To feel awake when my eyes are open.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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#22

“If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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#23

“She was both very happy and very sad.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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#24

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

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#25

“You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, lyrics, music

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#26

“I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, life, love, lyrics, music

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#27

“Don't talk to me about people who are nice, 'cause I've spent my whole life in ruins over people who are nice.”
― Morrissey

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#28

“Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, life, lyrics, music

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#29

“Can you squeeze me
into an empty page of your diary
and psychologically save me?”
― Morrissey

tags: humor, lyrics, music

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#30

“You know that you’ve found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite

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