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    Kelly Barnhill
    “It’s remarkable how quickly a person can get used to an impossible situation. How terror and panic can start to feel familiar, even ordinary.”
    ― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
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    V.E. Schwab
    “There are no good men in this game.”
    ― V. E. Schwab, Vicious
    tags: game, good-men
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    V.E. Schwab
    “Be lost. Give up. give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, Vicious
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    V.E. Schwab
    “All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, Vicious
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    V.E. Schwab
    “Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
    ― V. E. Schwab
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    V.E. Schwab
    “People could only hurt you if you cared enough to let them.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows
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    V.E. Schwab
    “He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).”
    ― V.E. Schwab, Vicious
    tags: humor, life
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    V.E. Schwab
    “People are users. It's a universal truth. Use them, or they'll use you.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, This Savage Song
    tags: callum-harker
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    V.E. Schwab
    “no one suffers as beautifully as you.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
    tags: heartbreaking
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    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: lies, life, relationship
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: lies, truth
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed
    tags: humanity, isolation, lies, loneliness, misunderstanding
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    Michael Ende
    “When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
    tags: beliefs, lies, power
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    Cassandra Clare
    “When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
    tags: betrayal, lady-midnight, lies, pain, the-dark-artifices, truth
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    Anne Rice
    “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
    tags: compassion, deciet, hate, interview-with-the-vampire, lestat, lie, lies, love, lovers, lying, secret, secrets, truth, vampire, vampires
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: lies, truth
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    T.F. Hodge
    “Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.”
    ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
    tags: honesty, lies, love, quotes, relationships, spoil, truth
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    Victoria E. Schwab
    “There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
    tags: delilah-bard, lies, truth
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    Miguel de Unamuno
    “At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”
    ― Miguel de Unamuno
    tags: lies, lying, reason, silence, truth
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: brutal-honesty, cheaters, conartists, denial, divorce, emotional-abuse, games, gaslighting, honesty, justice, liars, lies, manipulators, mind-games, narcissism, real-truth, relationships, secrets, truth
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    Stephanie Garber
    “I'll never understand humans." Poison sighed. "All of you seem to welcome our lies, but you never like it when we tell the truth.”
    ― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart
    tags: lies, ouabh, truth
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    Tom Holt
    “Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.”
    ― Tom Holt, Falling Sideways
    tags: lies
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    Michael Ende
    “Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
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    Tara Brach
    “When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.”
    ― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
    tags: care, empathy, healing, suffering
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    Tara Brach
    “Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.”
    ― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
    tags: acceptance-of-oneself, lovingkindness, self-confidence, spirituality
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
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  • #29
    Anthony Bourdain
    “your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
    tags: body, food
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Underneath my outside face
    There's a face that none can see.
    A little less smiley,
    A little less sure,
    But a whole lot more like me.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
    tags: underface
    738 likes



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