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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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The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

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It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives. ↗

— Gerald Lawson Sittser

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with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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All that glitters is not hovery. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

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