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“Everyone is weird”
― Matthew Gray Gubler, Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging, and Being Yourself

“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“You’ve never seemed to really need anyone, Clary. You’ve always been so… contained. All you’ve ever needed is your pencils and your imaginary worlds. So many times I’ve had to say things six, seven times before you’d even respond, you were so far away. And the you’d turn to me and smile that funny smile, and I’d know you’d forgotten all about me and just remembered— but I was never mad at you. Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else’s.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair."
"Why should you, with so much energy and talent?"
"That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try anymore.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“—(…) Simplemente hacemos nuestro mejor esfuerzo, incluso cuando, a menudo, nuestro mejor esfuerzo no es lo suficientemente bueno. Culparse a sí mismo ahora no va a cambiar el pasado; solo te quitará la energía que deberías gastar en el presente. Y mira dónde estás ahora; estás aquí. No es demasiado tarde.”
― Elena Armas

“—Nunca has necesitado a nadie para librar tus batallas, Catalina. Esa es una de las cosas que más respeto de ti.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I find it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional.”
― Matthew Gray Gubler

“My name is Victoria Spring. I think you should know that I make up a lot of stuff in my head and then get sad about it. I like to sleep and I like to blog. I am going to die someday.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A”
― Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars

“If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.”
― Matthew Gray Gubler

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Just because something comes easily to you, does not mean it has no value.

You find it effortless because you love it, and that is why it is your gift.”
― Katie O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
― T.S. Eliot

“Everyone is weird!”
― Matthew Gray Gubler, Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging, and Being Yourself

“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“i'm bad at reality”
― Matthew Gray Gubler

“You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!”
― Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars

“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
― Brad Paisley