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If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

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See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere

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People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will 'lessen as time passes,' but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.

Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared moments.

Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

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Here we are. And we are living. Isn't it amazing? How we manage to be at all.

Sarah Crossan, One

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Those who know what it's like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light.

Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

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there’s a universe swirling inside you. you have to learn to be your own earth, wind, fire and water. you are a natural phenomenon— not a natural disaster.

K.Y. Robinson, The Chaos of Longing

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I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way…I can’t apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to… We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful…We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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Love does that. It makes you feel infinite and invincible, like the whole world is open to you, anything is achievable, and each day will be filled with wonder. Maybe it’s the act of opening yourself up, letting someone else in—or maybe it’s the act of caring so deeply about another person that it expands your heart.

Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

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Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, 'Is this my life?', remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

Sophie Kinsella, My Not So Perfect Life

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The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you. I was still missing, in many ways. And I wasn't sure I wanted to be found.

Sarah Dessen, Once and for All

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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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And I remind myself that wherever one finds oneself, home and love is lent to each of us only for a while. We must care for it while it’s ours, and cherish its memory once it’s gone.

Barbara Mutch, The Housemaid’s Daughter

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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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Let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers.

Tara Conklin, The House Girl

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your words are still inspiring if no one knows of them; are galaxies less striking when no one looks at them?

- 28. 06. 17 (via kestrel-of-herran)