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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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  • #5
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #14
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
    tags: human, hurt
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    Holly Black
    “Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
    “No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
    "I can't.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: hideous, hideous-beauty, love, romance
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    Holly Black
    “By you, I am forever undone.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: cardan-greenbriar, love, romance
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    Holly Black
    “Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: cardan-greenbriar, jude-duarte, romance
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    Holly Black
    “He presses his mouth to the pulse point of my wrist, racing in time with my heart. “Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.” His eyes are black with desire. “By you, I am forever undone.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
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    Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
    “I stop myself from apologizing-because what would I even be sorry for? Existing too loud?”
    ― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades
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    Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
    “They say love and hate are the same, just at different ends of the blade”
    ― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades
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  • #23
    SenLinYu
    “She was a non-active member of the Order of the Phoenix and did not fight.”
    ― SenLinYu, Manacled
    tags: beautiful
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  • #24
    M.L. Rio
    “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: words
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    M.L. Rio
    “Were you in love with him?'
    'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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    M.L. Rio
    “But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: end, tragedy
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  • #28
    M.L. Rio
    “How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: decisions
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  • #29
    M.L. Rio
    “Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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  • #30
    M.L. Rio
    “It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: love
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  • #31
    M.L. Rio
    “There is no comfort like complicity.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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