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‎Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her... ↗

— J. Ruth Gendler

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There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starting.”   Siddhrtha Gautama ↗

— Seth Godin

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...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles. ↗

— Marisha Pessl

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See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, ↗

— Neal Stephenson

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The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

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She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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I’ve always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got to be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me. ↗

— David Levithan

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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them, ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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