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  • #1
    Jennifer Niven
    “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #2
    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

  • #3
    Ned Vizzini
    “I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

  • #4
    Ned Vizzini
    “Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: true

  • #5
    Jennifer Niven
    “sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #6
    Jennifer Niven
    “No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #7
    Jennifer Niven
    “Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is “It’s lovely.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #8
    Jennifer Niven
    “You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #10
    John Green
    “You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #11
    John Green
    “Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #12
    John Green
    “It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
    tags: love

  • #13
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #14
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #15
    John Green
    “I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #16
    John Green
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #17
    John Green
    “How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #18
    John Green
    “I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #19
    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #20
    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #21
    Angie Thomas
    “Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'.”
    Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

  • #22
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #23
    Becky Albertalli
    “What's a dementor?"
    I mean, I can't even. "Nora, you are no longer my sister."
    "So it's some Harry Potter thing," she says.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #24
    Jostein Gaarder
    “Yes, we too are stardust.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

  • #25
    Jostein Gaarder
    “Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

  • #26
    Jostein Gaarder
    “It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Maya

  • #27
    Jostein Gaarder
    “There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.”
    Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

  • #28
    Jostein Gaarder
    “Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

  • #29
    Jennifer Niven
    “I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can’t stop people from dying. You can’t stop them from going away. You can’t stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #30
    Jennifer Niven
    “The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #31
    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles



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