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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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I wasn’t seeking a place, but a person. I’d come home.

Erin Watt, Cracked Kingdom

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I feel like I’m cracking open my chest and letting her see inside. It’s not pretty there, but I don’t want to let her go.

Erin Watt, Fallen Heir

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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But that doesn't mean the past has to repeat itself. We have to believe that we can change the future. Otherwise, what's the point of anything?

Sara Holland, Evermore

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Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.

Colleen Hoover, Without Merit

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All that matters is the truth as you know it, and as the ones who love you know it.

Rachel Hawkins, Royals

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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

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I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

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Happiness does not happen. Happiness must be uncovered, separated from the skin of pain. It must be claimed. Kept close. Protected.

Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

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I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

Henry James, Daisy Miller

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Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death

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A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if it bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.

Sarah Morgan, Sunset in Central Park

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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper