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#91

“Charles Wallace looked troubled. “I don’t think it’s that. It’s being able to understand a sort of language, like sometimes if I concentrate very hard I can understand the wind talking with the trees. You tell me, you see, sort of inad—inadvertently. That’s a good word, isn’t it? I got Mother to look it up in the dictionary for me this morning. I really must learn to read, except I’m afraid it will make it awfully hard for me in school next year if I already know things. I think it will be better if people go on thinking I’m not very bright. They won’t hate me quite so much.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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#92

“Even though she was used to Mrs. Whatsit's odd getup (and the very oddness of it was what made her seem so comforting), she realized with a fresh shock that it was not Mrs. Whatsit herself that she was seeing at all. The complete, the true Mrs. Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs. Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs. Whatsit *could* be.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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#93

“he seemed to be thinking at him.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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#94

“. . . For that he was a spirit too delicate
To act their earthy and abhorr’d commands,
Refusing their grand hests, they did confine him
By help of their most potent ministers,
And in their most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain. . . . Shakespeare. The Tempest.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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#95

“Well, the fifth dimension’s a tesseract.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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#96

“What a child doesn’t realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairy tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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#97

“I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand thinga for them to be.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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#98

“—Why can’t I hide it, too? Meg thought. Why do I always have to show everything?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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#99

“I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.”
― Jessica Warman, Between

tags: disappear, found, home, lost

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#100

“Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

tags: disappear, embarrassment, feelings

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#101

“You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.”
― Kid Cudi

tags: disappear

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#102

“But, sometimes, especially late at night, when only the wind is awake with my thoughts, I feel an urgent need. I think of lacing up my tennis shoes and stepping out the door, already in a half run. I think of running and running forever, until I become part of the night sky. -The Art of Leaving”
― Shilo Niziolek, Broad River Review

tags: disappear, freedom, leaving, relationships, running, wild

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#103

“We don't usually wish we were invisible unless, for some extreme reason, we were noticed first.”
― Joyce Rachelle

tags: disappear, getting-noticed, introversion, introvert, invisible, wanting-to-be-invisible, wanting-to-disappear

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#104

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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#105

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
― George Eliot

tags: hunger, living, longing, wish, wishing

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#106

“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

tags: heart, hunger, hurt, pain, waiting, wish

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#107

“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
― John Piper, A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting And Prayer

tags: desire, hunger

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#108

“I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: cake, hunger, reality, world

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#109

“We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?!”
― Chris Rock

tags: allergies, hunger, plenty, wealth

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#110

“Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: death, hunger, sleep

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#111

“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: black, chambers, dark-tower, deschain, gunslinger, hunger, jake, man, roland, stephen-king

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#112

“I'm looking for someone
to quench my thirst-for all eternity"
-Luna Maxwell”
― Ellen Schreiber, Vampireville

tags: blood, luna, thirst, vampire, vampireville

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#113

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world

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#114

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: believe, inspirational

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#115

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: heart, love, reason, truth

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#116

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
― Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam

tags: beginnings-and-endings, feeling, intuition, knowledge

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#117

“You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: career-advice, inspiration, intuition

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#118

“You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: drained, funny, funny-but-true, homebody, humor, introvert, loner, personality, recharge, shy

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#119

“The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love and lose your moneys to a monster, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the poor mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”
― T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone

tags: learning

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#120

“He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.”
― T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone

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