There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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There are no dead ends, just detours.

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I love hearing educated people speak and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice. — Zendaya

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Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that. -MF Doom

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When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

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She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up. ― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. — bell hooks

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. — Helen Keller

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