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"You could live a little or you could live a lot."
Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic
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"Things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully."
Harold, A Little Life
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"Without courage, you will never find the answer."
-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic
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"I tell myself that I want to live a happy life, and that the circumstances for happiness just haven't arisen. But what if that's not true? What if I'm the one who can't let myself be happy? Because I'm scared, or I prefer to wallow in self-pity, or I don't believe I deserve good things, or some other reason."
- Eileen, Beautiful World, Where Are You
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"Why not take a chance as long as you were still alive? At this age there wasn't much more to lose, only the beautiful world, only every morning and night."
Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"Fate is what you make of it. You can make the best of it, or you can let it make the best of you."
-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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"You won't make anything better by weaving your own misery into the collective shroud. If you find some tendril of happiness, then tug into it. Because a world without happiness isn't worth fighting for."
The Women of Chateau Lafayette, Stephanie Dray
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"Because the world always snuffs out fire, and every generation must bring light from darkness again."
-Gilbert Lafayette, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so."
- Odie O'Banion, This Tender Land
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"It never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs."
- Tara Westover, Educated
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return."
- Mal Oretsev, Ruin and Rising (The Grisha Trilogy)
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estepanyahois · 2 years
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"Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?"
- Barack Obama, Becoming
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estepanyahois · 3 years
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"Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea."
Sturmhond, Siege and Storm
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estepanyahois · 4 years
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"Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost."
Aiko, Caraval
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estepanyahois · 4 years
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"Just being alive can make people afraid."
Ash, Children of Eden
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estepanyahois · 4 years
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"There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots. You can't attend to all of them, but you have to try."
Big Roy, An American Marriage
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