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“Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.”

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Lauren Oliver, born in 1982, is an accomplished American author known for her profound emotional depth and imaginative storytelling. Her works have garnered widespread acclaim and have resonated with readers around the world. more

“When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.”

People Men World Persons Black Differences White Issues Saws Republican Men And Women Catholic Democrat Significant Divided White Man Protestants Nineteen Pureness

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

Ifs World Choices Stars Hurt This World Romantic Determination Faults Self Determination Hazel Grace Fault In Our Stars Hurting You

Author:John Green

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

Life Real Stars Bigger Faults Infinity Hazel Grace Fault In Our Stars

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.”

World Mines Regard Property Preoccupation

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?”

Firsts Dad Eggs Chickens Helplessness

Author:Justina Chen

“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.”

Knows Men Feels Light Spiritual Ignorance Blind Ignorant Blind Man Dissolving

Author:Rajneesh

“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live.”

Men Children Has Beens Made Dies Next Parent Materials Lovers One Day Miserable Torture Wheels Shock Decay Doomed Worms Prey Brides Tombs Forgetfulness Blooming

Book:Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

“What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?”

Looks Accepting Self Esteem Reflection Mirrors Despise Loathe Resigned

Author:Justina Chen

“Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.”

Born Memories Letters Tales Diaries Keepers Talkers Southerner Great Memories Retainers

Author:Eudora Welty

“Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.”

Knows Wanted Artist Force Space Saws Minutes Design Keys Responsible Wings Scales Butterfly Intricate Telescopes Nature's Beauty Butterfly Wings

Author:Philip Yancey

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