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  • #1
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #2
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Only bad books have good endings.
    If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #4
    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    John Green

  • #5
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #7
    Becky Albertalli
    “White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: glbt

  • #8
    Becky Albertalli
    “The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #9
    Becky Albertalli
    “Sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #10
    Becky Albertalli
    “I take a sip of my beer, and it's - I mean, it's just astonishingly disgusting. I don't think I was expecting it to taste like ice cream, but holy fucking hell. People lie and get fake IDs and sneak into bars, and for this? I honestly think I'd rather make out with Bieber. The dog. Or Justin.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #11
    Becky Albertalli
    “I’m too busy trying not to be in love with someone who isn’t real.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #12
    Emily St. John Mandel
    “Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
    Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

  • #13
    Emily St. John Mandel
    “What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”
    Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

  • #14
    Emily St. John Mandel
    “First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”
    Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

  • #15
    Emily St. John Mandel
    “Everything ends. I am not afraid.”
    Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

  • #16
    Roald Dahl
    “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #17
    Francesca Zappia
    “People say teenagers think they're immortal, and I agree with that. But I think there's a difference between thinking you're immortal and knowing you can survive. Thinking you're immortal leads to arrogance, thinking you deserve the best. Surviving means having the worst thrown at you and being able to continue on despite that. It means striving for what you want most, even when it seems our of your reach, even when everything is working against you.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #18
    Francesca Zappia
    “What you loved as a child, you will love forever.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #19
    Francesca Zappia
    “I am real. This”–he put his other hand over the first-“is real. You see me interacting with other people all day long, don’t you? I talk to people; I affect things in the world. I cause things to happen. I am real.”

    “But-but what if this whole place”-I had to suck in air again-“what if everything is inside my head? East Shoal and Scarlet and this bridge and you-what if you’re not real because nothing is real?”

    “If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #20
    Francesca Zappia
    “Everyone's interesting if you stare at them long enough.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #21
    Francesca Zappia
    “Yeah, we never said we liked you," said Ian, smiling. "We just prefer that you don't die.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #22
    Francesca Zappia
    “He had to be real. Out of everything, he had to be real.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #23
    Francesca Zappia
    “In a weird way, it felt like he belonged here. He belonged in the land of phoenixes and witches, the place where things were too fantastic to be real.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #24
    Andy Weir
    “The worst moments in life are heralded by small observations.”
    Andy Weir, The Martian

  • #25
    Marissa Meyer
    “She would have auctioned off the Milky Way if it would have made his intentions a little less honorable.”
    Marissa Meyer, Winter

  • #26
    Marissa Meyer
    “Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
    Marissa Meyer, Winter

  • #27
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #28
    Richard Bach
    “Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
    Richard Bach

  • #29
    Libba Bray
    “I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”
    Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
    tags: love

  • #30
    Libba Bray
    “Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.”
    Libba Bray, Beauty Queens



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