These precious pains in the ass.
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The melodramatic reactions to hearing about things they definitely have absolutely nothing to do with...
The daring attempted seductions.
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16 Beautiful Quotes That Will Inspire You To Be Brave
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1. "Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room."
2. "Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness."
3. "You will learn a lot from yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love."
4. "No is golden. No is the power the good witch wields."
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5. "You must love in order to be loved. You must be inclusive in order to feel yourself among the included. You must give in order to receive."
6. "Every last one off us can do better than give up."
7. "Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo."
8. "I'll never know and neither will you about the life you didn't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore."
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9. "Travel by foot. There is so much you can't identify at top speed."
10. "When the path reveals itself, follow it."
11. "Go because you want to go. Because wanting to leave is enough."
12. "Put yourself in the way of beauty."
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13. "Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway."
14. "Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do."
15. "We were all sluts in the '90s."
16. "It's folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?"
Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed is on sale now.
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What's The Best Fanfiction You've Ever Read?
Do it for your OTP.
Fanfiction is a beautiful corner of the Internet where your favorite characters and stories can live on forever.
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Maybe you're in love with an epic AU about Kirk and Spock.
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Or maybe an angsty Faith/Buffy one-shot has captured your heart.
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Perhaps you found the perfect Doctor/Rose fix-it fic for the damage Doctor Who did to your soul.
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31 Alternative Harry Potter Halloween Costume Ideas
Dress up as something more unique than The Boy Who Lived this Halloween.
Dolores Umbridge
The Golden Snitch
Luna Lovegood
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J.K. Rowling Used "Harry Potter" To Explain Why She Opposes A Cultural Boycott Of Israel
“Dumbledore is an academic and he believes that certain channels of communication should always remain open.”
Author J.K. Rowling has published a statement on Twitter, called "Why Dumbledore Went To The Hilltop", discussing the issue of morality in the Harry Potter series to help explain why she opposes a cultural boycott of Israel.
Rowling was one of over 150 people to co-sign a letter, published in The Guardian last week, against the boycott. In the letter the signatories wrote: "Cultural boycotts singling out Israel are divisive and discriminatory, and will not further peace."
However, following her inclusion in the letter, Rowling received backlash over the decision and it led to claims she is a Zionist supporter of Israel. So now she has explained her decision further, using her Harry Potter character Dumbledore to make her point.
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The Palestinian community has suffered untold injustice and brutality. I want to see the Israeli government held to account for that injustice and brutality. Boycotting Israel on every possible front has its allure ... What sits uncomfortably with me is that severing contact with Israel's cultural and academic community means refusing to engage with some of the Israelis who are most pro-Palestinian, and most critical of Israel's government.
The scene – where Dumbledore is summoned to a hilltop to talk with Death Eater Severus Snape – supports Rowling's belief that conversation is key to resolving conflict.
"Dumbledore is an academic and he believes that certain channels of communication should always remain open," she writes. "It was true in the Potter books and it is true in life that talking will not change wilfully closed minds. However, the course of my fictional war was forever changed when Snape chose to abandon the course on which he was set, and Dumbledore helped him do it."
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Those people are right, but only up to a clearly defined point. The Harry of six and a half books might not understand. Harry is reckless and angry for a considerable portion of those six and a half books and he has my whole-hearted sympathy ... There comes a moment in the final book, though, when Harry, whose natural inclination is to fight, to rush to action, to lead from the front, is forced to stop and consider the cryptic message the dead Dumbledore has left him.
21 Last-Minute Halloween Decorations You Can Make Yourself
Let’s get SPOOKY.
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Pumpkin Bats
No need to have top-notch pumpkin carving skills for these guys!
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Spider Cupcake Toppers
A great way to add a little spook to your sweets. Unless you're afraid of spiders...
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Spooky Boo Garland
Recycle those Christmas lights into cute little ghost garland.
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How Many "The Baby-Sitters Club" Books Have You Actually Read?
Original series only, otherwise we’d be here all day.
