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I write short book reviews and share quotes

[thenorthernraven]

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

- Plato

[thenorthernraven]

"I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world."

- American Beauty, 1999

[thenorthernraven]

"Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close."

- Stephen King

[thenorthernraven]

"Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up."

- Jackie Chan

[thenorthernraven]

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

[amargedom]

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”

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[booksquotelife]

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

[amargedom]

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, its tides and its depths; it has its pearls too.”

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[thenorthernraven]

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” 

- The Little Prince; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[thenorthernraven]

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

- Harper Lee; To Kill A Mockingbird

[thenorthernraven]

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

- John Green; The Fault in Our Stars

[amargedom]

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

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[thenorthernraven]

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”

- All The Light We Cannot See; Anthony Doerr

[thenorthernraven]

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” 

- Paulo Coelho; The Alchemist

[thenorthernraven]

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie; Peter Pan

[thenorthernraven]

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

- Sylvia Plath; The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[thenorthernraven]

"Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human."

- Tahere Mafi; Shatter Me