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#1

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

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#2

“The horror! The horror!”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: kurtz, the-horror

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#3

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: knowledge

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#4

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: faith

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#5

“I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.”
― Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch

tags: birthdays, halloween, magick, samhain, witches

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#6

“If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

tags: witches

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#7

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: change, disappointment, night, time

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#8

“Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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#9

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#10

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27772 likes

#11

“all is dead
but for the mosquitoes
singing
their blood song”
― Thabo Jijana, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes

tags: biko, death, heat, mosquitoes

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#12

“It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

tags: heat, temperature

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#13

“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

tags: heat

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#14

“God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.”
― Rachel Caine

tags: chill-factor, heat, joanne-baldwin

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#15

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

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#16

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

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