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Because everything changes. Nothing stays the same for long. The minute you’re used to something, the minute you think, “oh, this is how life is,” life finds a way of surprising you. You never know what life is gonna throw at you. And you have two choices: Run from it... or run at it.

~ colorfulbiscuithandsdiplomat

Towns and villages are easily conquered. But with cities like Paris, London, Chicago, New York, she doesn't have to pace herself, doesn't have to take small bites to make the newness last. A city she can consume as hungrily as she likes, devour it every day and never run out of things to eat.

It is the kind of place that takes years to visit, and still there always seems to be another alley, another set of steps, another door.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E Schwab.

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Addie has always had a fondness for museums.

Spaces where history gathers out of place, where art is ordered, and artifacts sit on pedestals, or hang on walls above little white didactics. Addie feels like a museum sometimes, one only she can visit.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E Schwab.

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The book of love is long and boring

No one can life the damn thing

It's full of charts and facts and figures

And instructions for dancing

But I

I love it when you read to me

And you

You can read me anything

— The Magnetic Fields, "The Book of Love"

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Almost nobody gets out of love alive.

— Helen Fisher

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Funny, how some people take an age to warm, and others simply walk into every room as if it's home.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRaue, V.E Schwab.

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A life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things— she would go mad. She has gone mad.

What she needs are stories.

Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.

Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.

Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives— or to find strength in a very long one.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E Schwab.

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All girls are prone to dreaming. She will grow out of it, her parents say— but instead, Adeline feels herself growing in, holding tighter to the stubborn hope of something more.

She is at odds with everything, she does not fit, an insult to her sex, a stubborn child in a woman's form, her head bowed and arms wrapped tight around her drawing pad as if it were a door.

And when she does look up, her gaze always goes to the edge of town.

"A dreamer," scorns her mother.

"A dreamer," mourns her father.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.

Until Adeline wakes up.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E Schwab

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Here was Islam, his own country, more than a Faith, more than a battle-cry, more, much more... Islam, an attitude towards life both exquisite and durable, where his body and his thoughts found their home.

A Passage to India, E.M. Forster

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It wasn't that she wanted to burn the world down, no. She just wanted the world to know that she could.

The Merciful Crow, Margaret Owen.

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She held me when my insecurities were as sharp as a knife and at every moment they got sharper. She held me even tighter.

#mysoulsister

"It hurts," he whispered.

"What does?" asked Kate.

"Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts." Kate tipped her head back against the tub. "That’s life, August," she said. "You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re monster or human. Living hurts."