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Quotes

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"Each Day is a new 24 hours, each day everything is possible again. You live in the moment. You die in the moment. You take it all one day at a time. You try to walk in the light." ~ Legen by Marie Lu

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"There is something delicious about writing the first words of the story. You never know quite where they'll take you." ~Beatrix Potter

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"Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other."
  ~ Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue 

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"Some friendships are so special they transcend lifetimes" ~ avatar the last Airbender. 

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"Write hard and clear about what hurts" ~ Ernest Hemingway

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"One day at a time. One dream at a time. And one could say it's right and one could say it's wrong. And they could probably both be right. Because life is both complicated and simple" ~ Fredrik Backman

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"How slow life seems, how violent hope is"  ~Guillaume Apollinaire

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"He has bright blue eyes, dirt on his face, and a beat-up old cap on, and at this moment I think he might be the most beautiful boy I've ever seen."  Legend by Marie Lu

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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." ~Gustave Flaubert

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"The way Gansey saw it was this: If you had a knack for finding things it meant you owed the world to look." ~ The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater 

21.

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think upon." ~ Hoid from The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

23.

"You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life." ~ Joanne Harris

25.

"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light." ~ Dylan Thomas

27.

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” ~ Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

2.

"I'm more afraid of heights than I am of never flying." ~ Atticus

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." ~ The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt

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"In the end it is not the words of our enemies that we will remember, but the silence of our friends." ~ MLK

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“I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.” ~ Doctor Who

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“When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.” ~ Doctor Who

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"NEVER give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about." 

14.

"Write down who you were, who you are, and what you want to remember." ~ Natalie Goldberg

16.

"If a book is well written I always find it too short." ~ Jane Austen

18.

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed." ~ Ernest Hemingway

20.

"I want so much that is no there and I do not know where to go."

22.

"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."

24.

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

26.

“Aren't you afraid of dying?" he asked Lila now.
She looked at him as if it were a strange question. And then she shook her head. "Death comes for everyone," she said simply. "I'm not afraid of dying. But I am afraid of dying here." She swept her hand over the room, the tavern, the city. "I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.” ~ Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

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