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    Marissa Meyer
    “The easiest way to steal something, is for it to be given willingly.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
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    Marissa Meyer
    “When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken back. What am I?”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
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    Charles Dickens
    “If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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    Robin Hobb
    “I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
    tags: cry, death, depression, empty, forget, grief, hollow, ignore, life, loss, mourn, mourning, numb, pass-by, sorrow, tears
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love covers a multitude of sins…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, love, sins
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    Mary E. Pearson
    “Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…
    But even the great can tremble with fear.
    Even the great can fall”
    ― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
    tags: death, fall, falling, fate, fear, god, gods, great-as-the-god, kiss, life, man, once-upon-a-time, romance, tremble
    108 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: this-side-of-paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: humor, intimacy, sexual
    2080 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You'll find another.'
    God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “--I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires----
    "You are not!" She brought one little fist down onto the other. "You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    Colette
    “The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.”
    ― Colette
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    Colette
    “Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”
    ― Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
    tags: books-reading-colette
    93 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “People living alone get used to loneliness.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: alienation, callousness, dehumanization
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    Wilkie Collins
    “Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
    tags: crying
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    Wilkie Collins
    “This is a miserable world", says the Sergeant. "Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target --misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark".”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
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    Wilkie Collins
    “And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new. ”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
    tags: heaven-earth
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
    itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Charles Dickens
    “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: growth, heart, life, suffering
    4125 likes



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