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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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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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