“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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“My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour you...”
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“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in...”
“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
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“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I'v...”
“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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“I am not young enough to know everything.”
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“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
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“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how...”
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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
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“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
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“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child....”
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“And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.”
“If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware...”
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“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
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“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been a...”
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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again...”
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gon...”
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviou...”
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
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“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add...”
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
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“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
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“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as...”
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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
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“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
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“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
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“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
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“Resist much, obey little.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
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