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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake

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It’s amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

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To move forward, you have to leave the past behind.

Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.

Sheryl Sanberg

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Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.

Plato, The Republic 

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Either you have me or not at all. Either you love me or not at all. Either I am all yours or I am nobody’s. I will have no half-measures with you.

-Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl 

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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Neil Gaiman, Coraline 

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There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Sensible Thing

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I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Markus Zusak; The Book Thief

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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.

Charles Bukowski; Pulp

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Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you are not taking advantage of it?

Ernest Hemingway

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We laid there, underneath the stars, as fickle as we were, and I asked you what you thought we were. You pointed up into the sea of stars and said we were like the stars. That bit by bit, moment by moment, we were reaching our destiny of exploding in a flame of passion.

Nicholas Browne

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“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”

Lemony Snicket

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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up  with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping.’

Virginia Woolf; A Room of One’s Own

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The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Aldous Huxley