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  • #61
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #62
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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  • #63
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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  • #64
    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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  • #65
    Mark Twain
    “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness
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  • #66
    Ayana Mathis
    “I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.”
    ― Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
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  • #67
    Aldo Leopold
    “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
    ― Aldo Leopold
    tags: environment, nature, wilderness
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  • #68
    Judy Blume
    “Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
    ― judy blume
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  • #69
    Gloria Steinem
    “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: feminism, womens-rights
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  • #70
    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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  • #71
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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  • #72
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #73
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #74
    Ruta Sepetys
    “Krasivaya. It means beautiful, but with strength. Unique.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
    tags: andrius, krasivaya, lina, nikolai-kretzsky
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  • #75
    Ruta Sepetys
    “Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
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  • #76
    Bell Hooks
    “The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
    ― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
    tags: control, force, hurt, loss, love, pain, practice, risk, saftey, security
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  • #77
    Bell Hooks
    “Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.”
    ― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
    tags: attention, bond, giving, recognition, relationship, resource, romance
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  • #78
    Bell Hooks
    “All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”
    ― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
    tags: abuse, commitment, curelty, endurance, forgiveness, harm, health, love, relationship, unkindness
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  • #79
    Cat Cora
    “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
    ― Cat Cora
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  • #80
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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  • #81
    Amanda Lindhout
    “I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.”
    ― Amanda Lindhout, A House in the Sky
    tags: embroidered, fate, future
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  • #82
    Amanda Lindhout
    “It's only your body that's suffering, and you are not your body. The rest of you is fine.”
    ― Amanda Lindhout, A House in the Sky
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  • #83
    Amanda Lindhout
    “By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.”
    ― Amanda Lindhout, A House in the Sky
    tags: gratefulness, positive-thinking
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  • #84
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk
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  • #85
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot. ”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: marriage
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  • #86
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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  • #87
    Rick Riordan
    “Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both war and love.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
    tags: aphrodite, ares, fear, love, piper-mclean, wisdom
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  • #88
    Alice Walker
    “Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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  • #89
    Angela Carter
    “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
    ― Angela Carter
    tags: books, reading
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  • #90
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    4606 likes



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