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    Mitch Albom
    “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: family, inspirational, life, parents
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    Trenton Lee Stewart
    “You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.”
    ― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society
    tags: family, friends
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    Rick Riordan
    “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
    tags: family
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    Richard Bach
    “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: family
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    Frederick Buechner
    “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
    ― Frederick Buechner
    tags: family
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    John Green
    “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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    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy
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    Richelle Mead
    “You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
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    Jane Austen
    “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
    ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
    tags: romance
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    E.L. James
    “Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
    tags: romance
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    Fannie Flagg
    “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
    ― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
    tags: couples, deep, dissapointment, fate, heart, inspirational, love, people, romance
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    William Shakespeare
    “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: romance, teen-suicide, tragedy
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I honestly have no idea how to live without you.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
    tags: romance
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    Colleen Houck
    “Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”
    ― Colleen Houck
    tags: love, love-struck, romance
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    James Dean
    “If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.”
    ― James Dean
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    Erica Jong
    “Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: fame
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    Sun Tzu
    “He who advances without seeking fame,
    Who retreats without escaping blame,
    He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,
    The man is a jewel of the Realm”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: fame, jewel, retreat
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    Confucius
    “I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: fame, humility
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    William Shakespeare
    “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “What's in a name? that which we call a rose
    By any other name would smell as sweet.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: identity, labels, names, personality
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    tags: homosexuality, identity, lesbian, life, religion, romance, thoughts
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: identity
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