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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“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

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?!”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Beer has that Olympic medal color,” Rot replied, “but does it have a winning taste? I’d hardly call silver a champion flavor. No, I’ll stick to my red wine.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Mandrake Hotel and Resort to violence if necessary

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Човек е толкова голям, колкото нещата, които могат да го разгневят.”
― Winston Churchill, Никога не се предавайте... /Афоризми и анекдоти

“Когато в най-черно дело дяволът ни тласка, той слага си най-ангелската маска.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”
― Zig Ziglar

“Ала да жертваш нещо Старо заради Новото, то си е чиста сделка с дявола, глупава и гибелна. Не е цена това - безвъзвратно да събориш всичко ценно заради нов градеж, дори да го замисляш като велик, защото най-често ще е рожба на моментна необходимост или по-лошо – на прищявка...”
― Николай Теллалов, Да пробудиш драконче

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”
― Greg Behrendt , He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.”
― Veronica Roth, Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene

“You know family." My tone was clipped. "Always a pain in the ass.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Up from the Grave

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett