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    M.R. Carey
    “you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them.”
    ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Salvador Dalí
    “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: age, ambition, dreaming, dreams, youth
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    Edith Wharton
    “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
    but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
    I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
    well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
    ― Rebecca Katherine Martin
    tags: bizarre, feel, flawed, hope, imgaine, know, misattributed-frida-kahlo, people, person, read, strangest, think-strange, thought, world
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:

    Your seeds shall live in my body,
    And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
    And your fragrance shall be my breath,
    And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: anorexia, apples, eating, gratitude, recovery
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    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “So avoid using the word ‘very� because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
    ― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
    tags: language, laziness, morose, tired, very, women
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    Walt Whitman
    “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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    “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
    ― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society
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    “When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
    ― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay
    tags: dead-poets-society, john-keating, tom-schulman
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: feminism, qotd
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    Sheng Wang
    “A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.� It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
    ― Sheng Wang
    tags: feminism, humor, misattributed-betty-white
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    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    ― Cheris Kramarae
    tags: feminism, women
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    Betty Friedan
    “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
    ― Betty Friedan
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    Jessica Valenti
    “What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.
    You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.
    Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.�
    Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.”
    ― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism
    tags: double-standards, eye-opening, feminism, gender-inequality, insults, men, names, sexism, woman, womanhood, women
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    Thomas a Kempis
    “In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

    (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
    ― Thomas a Kempis
    tags: books, literature, peace, reading, rest, words
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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    tags: dream
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    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy
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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
    tags: love, relationships, romance
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?� I say.

    “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,� he says.

    “You should wake me,� I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.

    “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,� he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: catching-fire, katniss-and-peeta, katniss-everdeen, love, peeta-mellark, romance, the-hunger-games
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: love, passion, romance
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
    tags: jacob-black, romance
    1285 likes



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