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• The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

  Steven Levenkron

  Dolor, Significado, Yo

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• I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG.

  Shane Koyczan

  Beautiful, Heart, Mirrors

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• Clockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around. There is a soul under all that bravado. And he is really alive, one of the most alive people I have ever met. When he feels something, it is as bright and sharp as lightning.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Soul, Lightning

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• Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Home, Responsibility

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.169, Knopf

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• Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Law, Quality

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• Ursan blandió el cuchillo, amenazándome. "Habla, o empezaré a cortarte partes del cuerpo". "¿Tuyas? ¿O las mías?" Mantuve la voz firme a pesar de que las tripas se me retorcían. "Es una distinción importante.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Cutting, Knives, Voice

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). "Scent of Magic", p.61, Harlequin.

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• Nico di Angelo entró en el Olimpo con una bienvenida de héroe, con su padre justo detrás de él, a pesar de que se suponía que Hades sólo visitaba el Olimpo en el solsticio de invierno. El Dios de los muertos pareció atónito cuando sus parientes le dieron una palmada en la espalda. Dudo que alguna vez le hubieran dado una bienvenida tan entusiasta.

  Rick Riordan

  Padre, Héroe, Invierno

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• Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain. Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Heart, Darkness

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• She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mistake, Skills, People

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.37, Knopf

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• Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Cynical, Exterior

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Blood Promise”, p.263, Penguin UK

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• Un cuchillo, se sentía como un cuchillo, y había descubierto que a pesar de todo lo que había pasado, aún tenía un potencial infinito sin explotar para hacerme daño.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Heridas, cuchillos, potencial sin explotar

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). "Monstruos invisibles: A Novel", p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Self, Envy, Interesting

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.468, Random House

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• The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Might, Kind

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Selected Non-Fictions”, Penguin Group USA

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• Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fighting, Ravens, Two

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• Incluso ahora, a pesar de la vigilancia de Angeline, de vez en cuando oscilaba entre temas aleatorios, como que la tarta de pastor no era una tarta y por qué no tenía sentido que tomara clases de mecanografía cuando la tecnología acabaría desarrollando robots que lo harían por nosotros.

  Richelle Mead

  Tecnología, Clase, Tarta

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• Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Names, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

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• Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

  Kiera Cass

  Trying, Unattainable, Helping

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• He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Eye, Men

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I think loving someone, despite what people think, is FEARLESS. <3

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Loving Someone, People

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• I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

  Shane Koyczan

  Opposites, Ease, Love Myself

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2013

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• Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

  Franz Kafka

  Grateful, Facts, Should

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). "Soy un recuerdo que cobra vida: escritos autobiográficos", Schocken

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• Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

  Ally Carter

  Hurt, Hitting, Fists

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• Cuando leía estos libros, dejaba de sentirme confinada en un mundo diminuto. Ya no me sentía confinada en casa ni en la cama. En realidad, me decía a mí mismo, sólo estaba atado al cerebro. Y no era tan lamentable. Mi cerebro, con un poco de ayuda de los cerebros de otras personas, podía llevarme a lugares muy interesantes y crear todo tipo de cosas maravillosas. A pesar de sus defectos, decidí que mi cerebro no era el peor lugar del mundo para estar.

  Gavin Extence

  Lo Siento, Libro, Gente

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• But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

  Ann Aguirre

  Fighting, Absence, Stomach

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.871, Macmillan

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• She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her grey eyes flickered. Despite being beat-up, sooty, and dressed like a homeless person, she looked great to Percy. So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Light, Hair

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