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#1

“We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others鈥� lives.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

tags: defined, life, web

#2

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

16357 likes

#3

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#4

“Society made exceptions in matters of great beauty.”
― Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

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#5

“This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for ourselves. We must rely upon the words of others.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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#6

“It's said that ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

tags: ignorance, knowledge, poem, poetry

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#7

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#8

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#9

“Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: holly-black, jude, madoc, the-cruel-prince

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#10

“Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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#11

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20470 likes

#12

“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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#13

“She hadn't realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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#14

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― Andr茅 Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#15

“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

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#16

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#17

“Something that is loved is never lost.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#18

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

1365 likes

#19

“Life is unfair, and sometimes it helps to irrationally blame someone for it.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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#20

“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: honor, inspiration

1480 likes

#21

“The wise man molds himself鈥攖he fool lives only to die.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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#22

“Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It鈥檚 only the ratios that change. Usually on their own. As soon as you think that鈥檚 it, it鈥檚 going to be like this forever, they change again.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

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#23

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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#24

“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”
― Benjamin Alire S谩enz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: love

1102 likes

#25

“He felt as he always did when he finished a book 鈥� queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.”
― Stephen King, Misery

tags: writing

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#26

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Bront毛, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#27

“Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

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#28