Tag: Quotes
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QUOTE: Edgar Allan Poe
“Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe Love this one. It’s so easy to get caught up in the negative aspects of a situation, but when you take a step back you realize that this one bad thing shouldn’t erase all of the good. So insightful, […]
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QUOTE: Ransom Riggs
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” ~ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs What interesting, funny, or awesome quotes have you discovered recently? Let me know in the comments section below! Yours, HOLLY
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QUOTE: Toni Morrison
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” ~ Beloved by Toni Morrison This quote is just one of the many gems sprinkled throughout Toni Morrison’s haunting novel Beloved. If you enjoy historical fiction, ghost stories, or compelling books in general then I highly recommend it! What quotes have you discovered recently? Let me know in the comments section […]
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QUOTE: Anne Frank
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank Be inspired, my dear readers! Yours, HOLLY
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QUOTE: Marina Keegan
“We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lie alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out – that it is somehow too late. That others are […]
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QUOTE: Eat, Pray, Love
“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, ‘There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who’s in charge?” ~ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert When I read this quote in Eat, Pray, […]
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QUOTE: Melina Marchetta
“It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.” ~ Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta This book comes from possibly my favorite book of all time, Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta. One of the things […]
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QUOTE: George Orwell
“But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.” ~ page 126 of 1984 by George Orwell This was […]
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QUOTE: Charles Dickens
“All of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.” ~ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens This classic novel is overflowing with brilliant quotes such as this one. I definitely agree with Dickens- certain situations certainly bring out different aspects of people. What quotes have you discovered […]
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