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#1

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

tags: crooked-kingdom, inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker, six-of-crows

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#2

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#3

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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#4

“Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience:this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain (Author), Life on the Mississippi

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#5

“Instead of disappearing, she makes me feel reappeared. Reimagined. Her touch shapes me, draws out the boldness that had been hiding in my core.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

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#6

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#7

“He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever after. So he'd found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a declaration. There was no part of him that was no broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: broken, kaz-brekker

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#8

“I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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#9

“Why does it matter?” asked Nikolai.
“Because unlike Kaz, I have a conscience.”
“I have a conscience,” said Kaz. “It just knows when to keep its mouth shut.”
Jesper snorted. “If you have a conscience, it’s gagged and tied to a chair somewhere.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

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#10

“they asked "do you love her to death?"

i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
― Mahmoud Darwish

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#11

“الحلم هو الذي يجد الحالمين, وماعلى الحالم إلا أن يتذكر”
― محمود درويش, في حضرة الغياب

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#12

“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: art, destiny, inspirational, on-writing

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#13

“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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#14

“A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

tags: fugitive, poet, rebel

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#15

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#16

“This was what she had needed. Not forgiveness, not a balm for this strange writhing fury inside her, but the promise of someone to care for--to love--that she could not harm. Even if she had to. Even if she tried.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

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#17

“Memories,’ she said, at last. ‘Not people, Emmett. We take memories and bind them. Whatever people can’t bear to remember. Whatever they can’t live with. We take those memories and put them where they can’t do any harm. That’s all books are”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

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#18

“القهوة لا تُشرب على عجل، القهوةٌ أخت الوقت تُحْتَسى على مهل، القهوة صوت المذاق، صوت الرائحة، القهوة تأمّل وتغلغل في النفس وفي الذكريات”
― محمود درويش, ذاكرة للنسيان

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#19

“أريد رائحة القهوة ..
لا أريد غير رائحة القهوة ..
ولا أريد من الأيام كلها غير رائحة - القهوة -”
― محمود درويش, ذاكرة للنسيان

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#20

“I hope, or I could not live.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

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#21

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights

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#22

“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: achievement, beauty, clichés, distinction, empowerment, gender, gentleness, greatness, history, intelligence, self-determination, stereotypes, women

459 likes

#23

“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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#24

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

tags: inspirational, optimism, perseverance

194 likes

#25

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#26

“When you write, everything is possible, even the very opposite of what you are.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces

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#27

“Writing is a luxury or, with luck, a rainbow of colors. It is my lifesaver when the water of the river or the sea tries to drag me under. When you want to die you fall in love with yourself, you look for something touching that will save you.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces

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#28

“What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces

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#29

“You need the ocean for this: to stop believing in reality. To ask yourself impossible questions. To not know. To cease knowing. To become intoxicated by the smell. To close your eyes. To stop believing in reality.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

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#30

“ سأحلم ، لا لأصلح أي معنى خارجي . بل كي أرمم داخلي المهجور .”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

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