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“Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“I credit Craig Finn with saving my life.”
― Dave Holmes

“Sometimes I worry I’ll never find a place to call home.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“And sometimes the show can't go on.”
― Josh Kilmer-Purcell, I Am Not Myself These Days

“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

“It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
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― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. ”
― Nic Sheff, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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

“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia