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    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    ― John Banville, The Sea
    tags: memories, past
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “This moment will just be another story someday.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: memories, past
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    pleasefindthis
    “You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
    tags: break-ups, endings, forgetting-the-past, love, past, relationships
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    Alan W. Watts
    “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: future, illusion, past, present, time
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    L.P. Hartley
    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
    ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
    tags: history, memories, past
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    William Faulkner
    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
    ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
    tags: past, time
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    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: past, yesterday
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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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    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
    5060 likes

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    Cormac McCarthy
    “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
    2753 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: pain
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    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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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
    13802 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: peeta
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: happiness
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    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    ― John Green
    tags: breaking-up, lost-love
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    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    ― John Green
    tags: vlog
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    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: paper-towns
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    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: memories
    5662 likes

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    John Green
    “I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    3391 likes



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