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#1

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

#2

“Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: books, library, reading

3116 likes

#3

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47023 likes

#4

“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

23994 likes

#5

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: compassion, life, suffering

20131 likes

#6

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

14485 likes

#7

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

5116 likes

#8

“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

tags: america, the-selection

2507 likes

#9

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

tags: inconvenient, love, relationship, true-love

3145 likes

#10

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27855 likes

#11

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

26916 likes

#12

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18082 likes

#13

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16511 likes

#14

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

tags: vlog

11077 likes

#15

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars

5811 likes

#16

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: memories

5661 likes

#17

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: death-and-dying

4727 likes

#18

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

1561 likes

#19

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: life-philosophy, life-quotes

1128 likes

#20

“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: life-quotes

812 likes

#21

“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

tags: fantasy, fiction, ghosts, magic, societies

469 likes

#22

“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

349 likes

#23

“Not every flower belongs in every garden.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

tags: flower, garden

193 likes

#24

“He needed her and she needed him. That was how most disasters began.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

211 likes

#25

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

2538 likes

#26

“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

3344 likes

#27

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

1292 likes

#28

“Maybe some songs are just unruinable.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

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#29

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

2615 likes

#30

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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