Quotes - Alexander Lempin (Murfreesboro, TN) Showing 1-30 of 63

#1

“My Last Message would be to find your people. And to treat each day like a lifetime.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#2

“I just need more time with me, I think. To really believe in my worth without anyone's help.”
― Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us

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#3

“He couldn’t stand to look at the truth, even now. All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

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#4

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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#5

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: identity, pretend

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#6

“If he showed up on a desert island with a sandwich and a rescue boat, most people would try to beat him to death with the sandwich.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

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#7

“Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

tags: thebookaholicblurbs

890 likes

#8

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding

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#9

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: hard-work, inaction, just-do-it, success, team

1462 likes

#10

“Oh honey... goddesses don't speak in whispers... they scream”
― American Horror Story

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#11

“We have two selves... One the world needs us to be, compliant... And the shadow... Ignore it and life is forever suffering.”
― American Horror Story

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#12

“Messes are always forgiven... the first time...”
― American Horror Story

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#13

“I barely know him. I guess that is every relationship. You start with nothing and maybe end with everything.”
― Adam Silvera, What If It's Us

tags: ben, end, everything, nothing, relationships, start, what-if-it-s-us

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#14

“But maybe this isn’t how life works. Maybe it’s all about people coming into your life for a little while and you take what they give you and use it on your next friendship or relationship. And if you’re lucky, maybe some people pop back in after you thought they were gone for good.”
― Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us

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#15

“I don't get why that's so bad. Why shouldn't I want to be with someone who makes me feel worthy? Someone who wants to be with me for the long run?”
― Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us

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#16

“We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

tags: forgetting, happiness, life, memories, memory, remembering, wishful-thinking

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#17

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and so do we, and what was once important fades away.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

34 likes

#18

“Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

tags: forget, forgetting, gift, memories, memory, selective-memory, trama

35 likes

#19

“It’s a bit poetic that it is so easy to take advantage of those who have no advantages to begin with.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

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#20

“The world is a cruel place made crueler still by man.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

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#21

“Our minds work hard to avoid dissonance – if we hold a belief strongly enough, our minds will forcefully reject conflicting evidence so that we can maintain the integrity of our understanding of the world.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

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#22

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#23

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

947 likes

#24

“I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

tags: comparison, dying, living, race, safety

727 likes

#25

“But no matter what choices we make - solo or together - our finish line remains the same … No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

tags: thebookaholicblurbs

650 likes

#26

“I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

598 likes

#27

“Sometimes the truth is a secret you're keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#28

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. —John A. Shedd”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#29

“I may not be able to cure cancer or end world hunger, but small kindnesses go a long way.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#30

“Some risks are worth it.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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