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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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    Shannon Messenger
    “I would rather be punished for making the right decision than live with the guilt of making the wrong one for the rest of my life.”
    ― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities
    tags: guilt, keeper-of-the-lost-cities, kotlc, sophie-foster
    447 likes

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    Shannon Messenger
    “Because our family doesn't decide who we are. WE decide who we are. Believe me, it drives my parents crazy. And sometimes, that's the only thought that gets me through the day.”
    ― Shannon Messenger, Everblaze
    tags: keefe
    337 likes

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    Shannon Messenger
    “You'd be surprised at how powerful hope can be.”
    ― Shannon Messenger, Exile
    tags: terik
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    Shannon Messenger
    “I think we could all use a little more weird in our lives.”
    ― Shannon Messenger, Exile
    tags: fitz-vacker, keeper-of-the-lost-cities, kotlc, shannon-messenger
    144 likes

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    Shannon Messenger
    “Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.”
    ― Shannon Messenger, Lodestar
    tags: keefe-sencen, keeper-of-the-lost-cities, love-this-boy, sadness, shannon-messenger
    136 likes

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    Shannon Messenger
    “All it takes is one to stand where others fall.”
    ― Shannon Messenger, Neverseen
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    164777 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    147971 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    129834 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    M.L. Wang
    “It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”
    ― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven
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    M.L. Wang
    “The brightest meadows grew from dead things.”
    ― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: reading, survival
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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    R.F. Kuang
    “War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: war
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    R.F. Kuang
    “Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
    ― R.F. Kuang, Babel
    tags: babel
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    R.F. Kuang
    “You humans always think you’re destined for things, for tragedy or for greatness. Destiny is a myth. Destiny is the only myth. The gods choose nothing. You chose.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
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    R.F. Kuang
    “We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”
    ― Nicholas Sparks
    tags: love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
    34721 likes



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