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“Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.”
― Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit

“Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.”
― Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit

“Things happen. To everyone. No one escapes.”
― Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Freedom is exhausting.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Metaphors are lies.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“ Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. ”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“This is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. He had played his part. All that remained was the disintegration.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."

Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Our friendship is a nebula.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore