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My life amounts to no more than a drop in a limitless ocean. Yet, what is an ocean, but a multitude of drops?
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

This quote keeps me going sometimes, it's so gorgeous.
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A man chooses, a slave obeys
Bioshock

It's not a book (videogame), but I love the quote.
"The abstract sensation of living a lifestyle that hasn't been fully understood."
- The epitome of taste in living disgrace.
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"Keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back at any moment"

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

I reread it a lot when I'm having my existential panics about death and whatnot
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Why are terms of endearment always foods? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. It's not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.
This is from Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper. There are so many heart wrenching lines in this book and this is definitely my favorite.
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"The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose."

Dr. Myles Munroe
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Sorchadorcha wrote: 22 Feb 2018, 12:53
Why are terms of endearment always foods? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. It's not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.
This is from Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper. There are so many heart wrenching lines in this book and this is definitely my favorite.
My Sister's Keeper is so full of amazing quotes! One that absolutely tore my heart up when I read it was:
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
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There's no way I could ever pick one, but here are a few that stuck with me forever:
The self that is self we imagined we were our whole lives. But we were never that self, not really. We were only a series of selves, living one role and then leaving it for another. And all the time convincing ourselves that there was no change. That we were always the same person, living the same life. One arc to a finish, not the stutter-stop improvisation that is our actual lives.
- Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 52
Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera.
- Pablo Neruda
for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can't help but
see it everywhere
- Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.
- Tana French, In the Woods, p.307
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“It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”

Delia in The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
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I don't have a single favorite quote, but my husband and I reuse several movie quotes. We have a few from "A Few Good Men" like: You can't handle the truth.
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You must remember, family is often born of blood but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.
~ The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart.

Or...
The most noble title any child can have, is Third.
~Demosthenes, (Valentine) Ender’s Game- Orson Scott Card.
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Take the circumstance and f****g circumcise it.
Anna Walters - Simmons

Heartaches by H.M. Irwing
No idea is a bad idea.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)
-R
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“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”-Rosalynn Carter
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"This too shall pass"

~English Poet, Edward FitzGerald, Persian fable :wink:
And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. (Revelation 20:12 (NKJV) :reading-7:
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The word is not material, miss; either word will do
-- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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