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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    Richelle Mead
    “Too bad you got so bogged down in books. You've got the spirit of a warrior.”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I see my beauty in you.”
    ― Rumi
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Holly Black
    “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: cardan, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
    ― Rumi
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    Holly Black
    “Jude,

    Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me.

    I urge you: come be angry at a nearer distance.

    Cardan.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: cardan, cardan-greenbriar, holly-black, jude, jude-duarte, letter, letters-to-jude, the-folk-of-the-air, the-queen-of-nothing, urge
    56 likes

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    Holly Black
    “He's so beautiful, so perfectly, horribly, inhumanely beautiful that I can barely breathe.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: beautiful, breathless, cardan, cardan-greenbriar, holly-black, jude, jude-duarte, perfect, the-folk-of-the-air, the-queen-of-nothing
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    Holly Black
    “I wish I could punch him in his smug face and show him how undeterred I am by his exile.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: cardan, cardan-greenbriar, funny, holly-black, jude, jude-duarte, punch, smug, the-folk-of-the-air, the-queen-of-nothing
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    Holly Black
    “Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued,' Cardan says. 'For once.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: cardan, cardan-greenbriar, holly-black, jude, jude-duarte, rescue, rescued, sweet, the-folk-of-the-air, the-queen-of-nothing
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    Stephanie Garber
    “She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
    ― Stephanie Garber, Caraval
    tags: julian, scarlett
    1021 likes

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    Stephanie Garber
    “Dreams that come true can be beautiful, but they can also turn into nightmares when people won't wake up.”
    ― Stephanie Garber, Caraval
    tags: caraval
    383 likes

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    Stephanie Garber
    “He was mystery and unanswered questions.”
    ― Stephanie Garber, Caraval
    tags: caraval
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    Stephanie Garber
    “The truth is never what you want it to be, Little Fox.”
    ― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After
    tags: jacks, jacks-of-the-hollows, little-fox, prince-of-hearts, stephanie-garber, the-ballad-of-never-after, truth
    55 likes

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    Richelle Mead
    “Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
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    Richelle Mead
    “I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last.

    Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I’m concerned, you’re both.”
    ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
    tags: adorable, adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, couple, cute, love, sexy, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell
    306 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: jane-eyre, mr-rochester
    794 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
    tags: kafka
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: jane-eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Strange energy was in his voice, strange fire in his look.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: jane-eyre, rochester
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    Holly Black
    “Sharpen your heart.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: dangerous, dark, elfham, faerie, fantasy, fiction, hollow-hall, jude, prince-cardan, young-adult
    143 likes



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