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    John Green
    “I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: john-green, last-words, looking-for-alaska
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    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    ― Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    tags: essay, history
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    Cynthia Hand
    “So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.”
    ― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
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    Melissa Kantor
    “After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?”
    ― Melissa Kantor, If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
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    Melissa Kantor
    “Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?”
    ― Melissa Kantor, If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
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    Jay Asher
    “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: care, impact, life, reach-out, think
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    Jay Asher
    “You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: life, rumors
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    Jay Asher
    “That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, love
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    Veronica Rossi
    “She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.”
    ― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
    tags: romantic
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
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    Tricia Rayburn
    “You know when you're floating on your back in the lake, the water rises and falls against your ears? So that for half a second you can hear everything around you and then for the other half a second everything's muted? It almost feels like your suspended between two worlds.”
    ― Tricia Rayburn, Siren
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
    Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
    ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
    "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace
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    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    ― John Green
    tags: breaking-up, lost-love
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    Lauren Oliver
    “He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.

    It’s time to jump.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Requiem
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    Lauren Oliver
    “But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Requiem
    tags: happiness, pretending
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    “I was still alive. Ha! Take that kidnappers. Still alive. Maybe it was my butt that was feeding me. I always thought it was kind of round. I bet my body was eating up all the fat stores from my butt now. Yeah. See, having a big ass is a good thing. Good, good, good. They should put that in magazines. Why diet? Why stay thin? If you ever get kidnapped and left for dead, your fat ass could save your life!”
    ― Kate Brian, Suspicion
    tags: brennan, brian, humor, kate, private, reed
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
    tags: friendship
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
    ― Sarah Dessen
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    Sarah Dessen
    “It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: falling-apart, giving-in
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    John Green
    “How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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    Elizabeth Scott
    “I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.
    - Kate”
    ― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You
    tags: elizabeth-scott, romance, teens, young-adult
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    Jodi Picoult
    “At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: young-adult
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