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    Arthur Golden
    “We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: geisha, life
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    Arthur Golden
    “At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: death, loss
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    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness
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    William Golding
    “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: empowerment, equality, gender, men, superiority, women
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, mother-s-love, power-of-love
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    Roald Dahl
    “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they’re bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff,”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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    Roald Dahl
    “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Roald Dahl
    “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”
    ― Ronald Dahl
    tags: matilda-movie
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    Roald Dahl
    “Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
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    Roald Dahl
    “I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
    tags: men, mrs-wormwood
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    Roald Dahl
    “These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “People don't help much.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: piggy, ralph
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: children, parents
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
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    Jane Austen
    “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: profound
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    Jane Austen
    “He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: feminism
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    Jane Austen
    “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
    ― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: pride-and-prejudice
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    Gillian Flynn
    “There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Gillian Flynn
    “Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Gillian Flynn
    “She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Gillian Flynn
    “The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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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
    11056 likes



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