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“Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Fear no more, says the heart...”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

“Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.”
― Rebecca Stead, Liar & Spy

“Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.”
― Rebecca Stead, Liar & Spy

“Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.”
― Rebecca Stead, Liar & Spy

“Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.”
― Rebecca Stead, Liar & Spy

“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”
― Louis Sachar

“If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.”
― Louis Sachar, Holes

“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“You cannot pass!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman