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  • #1
    Mitch Albom
    “All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
    Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    “You should date a girl who reads.
    Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

    Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

    She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

    Buy her another cup of coffee.

    Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

    It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

    She has to give it a shot somehow.

    Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

    Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

    Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

    If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

    You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

    You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

    Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

    Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
    Rosemarie Urquico

  • #4
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #5
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #6
    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    Helen Keller

  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #10
    “That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.”
    Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

  • #11
    Cynthia Hand
    “There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”
    Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

  • #12
    Greta Garbo
    “Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”
    Greta Garbo

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #16
    Rudy Francisco
    “I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #17
    Rudy Francisco
    “Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #18
    Rudy Francisco
    “I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #19
    Rudy Francisco
    “I was told
    The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7
    She picks the colors and the cake first
    By the age of 10
    She knows time,
    And location
    By 17
    She’s already chosen a gown
    2 bridesmaids
    And a maid of honor
    By 23
    She’s waiting for a man
    Who wont break out in hives when he hears the word “commitment”
    Someone who doesn’t smell like a Band-Aid drenched in lonely
    Someone who isn’t a temporary solution to the empty side of the bed
    Someone
    Who’ll hold her hand like it’s the only one they’ve ever seen
    To be honest
    I don’t know what kind of tux I’ll be wearing
    I have no clue what want my wedding will look like
    But I imagine
    The women who pins my last to hers
    Will butterfly down the aisle
    Like a 5 foot promise
    I imagine
    Her smile
    Will be so large that you’ll see it on google maps
    And know exactly where our wedding is being held
    The woman that I plan to marry
    Will have champagne in her walk
    And I will get drunk on her footsteps
    When the pastor asks
    If I take this woman to be my wife
    I will say yes before he finishes the sentence
    I’ll apologize later for being impolite
    But I will also explain him
    That our first kiss happened 6 years ago
    And I’ve been practicing my “Yes”
    For past 2, 165 days
    When people ask me about my wedding
    I never really know what to say
    But when they ask me about my future wife
    I always tell them
    Her eyes are the only Christmas lights that deserve to be seen all year long
    I say
    She thinks too much
    Misses her father
    Loves to laugh
    And she’s terrible at lying
    Because her face never figured out how to do it correctl
    I tell them
    If my alarm clock sounded like her voice
    My snooze button would collect dust
    I tell them
    If she came in a bottle
    I would drink her until my vision is blurry and my friends take away my keys
    If she was a book
    I would memorize her table of contents
    I would read her cover-to-cover
    Hoping to find typos
    Just so we can both have a few things to work on
    Because aren’t we all unfinished?
    Don’t we all need a little editing?
    Aren’t we all waiting to be proofread by someone?
    Aren’t we all praying they will tell us that we make sense
    She don’t always make sense
    But her imperfections are the things I love about her the most
    I don’t know when I will be married
    I don’t know where I will be married
    But I do know this
    Whenever I’m asked about my future wife
    I always say
    …She’s a lot like you”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #20
    Rudy Francisco
    “She is my musician, and me, I’m her favorite song.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #21
    Rudy Francisco
    “Never ever forget that you are a constellation and I have owned a telescope since the day I was born.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
    Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
    Must give us pause: there's the respect
    That makes calamity of so long life;”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #23
    Rudy Francisco
    “My definition of love is being robbed in an alley eight times in a row and hoping that there’s something about today that makes all of this different.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #24
    Rudy Francisco
    “You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #25
    Rudy Francisco
    “Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.”
    Rudy Francisco

  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #27
    John Lennon
    “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
    John Lennon

  • #28
    Rick Riordan
    “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #29
    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    Dante Alighieri, Inferno

  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #31
    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse



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