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  • #1
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #2
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #4
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #9
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #10
    Victoria Schwab
    “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

  • #11
    V.E. Schwab
    “What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #12
    Victoria Schwab
    “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

  • #13
    Victoria Schwab
    “Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #14
    Victoria Schwab
    “Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #15
    Victoria Schwab
    “But this is how you walk to the end of the world. This is how you live forever. Here is one day, and here is the next, and the next, and you take what you can, savor every stolen second, cling to every moment, until it’s gone.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #16
    Victoria Schwab
    “But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things—she would go mad. She has gone mad.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #17
    Victoria Schwab
    “You know,” she’d said, “they say people are like snowflakes, each one unique, but I think they’re more like skies. Some are cloudy, some are stormy, some are clear, but no two are ever quite the same.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #18
    Victoria Schwab
    “Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #19
    Victoria Schwab
    “I remember seeing that picture and realizing that photographs weren’t real. There’s no context, just the illusion that you’re showing a snapshot of a life, but life isn’t snapshots, it’s fluid. So photos are like fictions. I loved that about them. Everyone thinks photography is truth, but it’s just a very convincing lie.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #20
    Victoria Schwab
    “That time always ends a second before you’re ready.

    That life is the minutes you want minus one.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #21
    Victoria Schwab
    “And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
    Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
    Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?
    And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says 'Always.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #22
    Victoria Schwab
    “The first mark she left upon the world, long before she knew the truth, that ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #23
    Victoria Schwab
    “If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky. Better that than firewood, cut down just to burn in someone else’s hearth.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #24
    Victoria Schwab
    “Live long enough, and you learn how to read a person. To ease them open like a book, some passages underlined and others hidden between the lines.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #25
    Victoria Schwab
    “Other people would call him sensitive, but it is more than that. The dial is broken, the volume turned all the way up. Moments of joy registered as brief, but ecstatic. Moments of pain stretched long and unbearably loud.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #26
    Victoria Schwab
    “Take your echoes and pretend they are a voice.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #27
    Victoria Schwab
    “They teach you growing up that you are only one thing at a time—angry, lonely, content—but he’s never found that to be true. He is a dozen things at once. He is lost and scared and grateful, he is sorry and happy and afraid.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #28
    Victoria Schwab
    “Do you think a life has any value if one doesn’t leave some mark upon the world?”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #29
    Victoria Schwab
    “The vexing thing about time,” he says, “is that it’s never enough. Perhaps a decade too short, perhaps a moment. But a life always ends too soon.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #30
    Victoria Schwab
    “Dine with me,” Luc says as winter gives way to spring.
    “Dance with me,” he says as a new year begins.
    “Be with me,” he says, at last, as one decade slips into the next”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue



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