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    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Rick Riordan
    “It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: enjoy, humor, joke, prank
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    Ransom Riggs
    “..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Chloe Gong
    “Even the land of dreams needs to wake up sometimes.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: nico
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    Ransom Riggs
    “When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Ransom Riggs
    “Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: hilarious
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    Angela Chen
    “Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality.”
    ― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
    tags: representation
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    Ransom Riggs
    “Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
    tags: dreams, hollow-city, life, miss-peregrines, nightmares
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    Chloe Gong
    “You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
    tags: juliette-cai, these-violent-delights
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    Rick Riordan
    “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: fate, future, knowledge
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Angela Chen
    “Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle.”
    ― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
    tags: asexuality
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    XiXi Tian
    “I found out being lonely is different than being alone. Loneliness, it turns out, isn't quite as easy to escape." -Margaret”
    ― XiXi Tian, This Place Is Still Beautiful
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    Angela Chen
    “A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.”
    ― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
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    XiXi Tian
    “I think about all the other Asian families who stay quiet, the mothers who tell us that we only need to put our heads down and work hard to succeed in this country, the bitterness of that lie. Our community. They always tell us that we're the good ones, the ones who don't complain, the model minority. We smile as they walk all over us.”
    ― XiXi Tian, This Place Is Still Beautiful
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    Edward Snowden
    “Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
    ― Edward Snowden
    tags: privacy, snowden
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    Edward Snowden
    “The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government.”
    ― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
    tags: political-philosophy
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    Edward Snowden
    “When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
    ― Edward Snowden
    tags: crime, diplomacy, exposing, insipirational, intelligence, secrecy
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    Edward Snowden
    “Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.”
    ― Edward Snowden
    tags: free-press, free-speech, information-age, internet, mass-surveillance, nothing-to-hide, nsa, privacy, snowden, surveillance
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    Edward Snowden
    “The truth, though, is that deletion has never existed technologically in the way that we conceive of it. Deletion is just a ruse, a figment, a public fiction, a not-quite-noble lie that computing tells you to reassure you and give you comfort.”
    ― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
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    Ransom Riggs
    “Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: funny, humor
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    Traci Chee
    “Gaman. The ability to hold your pain and bitterness inside you and not let them destroy you. To make something beautiful through your anger, or with your anger, and neither erase it nor let it define you. To suffer. And to rage. And to persevere.”
    ― Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
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    Traci Chee
    “We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous.”
    ― Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
    tags: racism
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    Traci Chee
    “...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face.”
    ― Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
    tags: minnow
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    Madeleine Roux
    “The thing about memories was, you never could control when they came up again.”
    ― Madeleine Roux, Asylum
    tags: memories
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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