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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Loneliness is a strange sort of thing.
It creeps on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes by your hair as you sleep. It wraps itself around your bones, squeezing so tight you almost can't breathe. It leaves lies in your heart, lies next to you at night, leaches the light out of every corner. It's a constant companion, clasping your hand only to yank you down when you're struggling to stand up.
You wake up in the morning and wonder who you are. You fail to fall asleep at night and tremble in your skin. You doubt you doubt you doubt.
do I
don't I
should I
why won't I
And even when you're ready to let go. When you're ready to break free. When you're ready to be brand-new. Loneliness is an old friend stand beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. You can't find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you're not enough never enough never ever enough.
Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion.
Sometimes it just won't let go.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The books...they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Idiots are highly flammable, love. Let them all burn in hell.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.”
― Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?

“les folies que l'on regrette le plus sont celles que l'on pas commises quand on en avait l'occasion”
― Guillaume Musso, Demain

“Mets tes peurs entre paranthèses et prends le risque d'être heureux.”
― Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?

“S'il y a une chose à laquelle tu tiens par-dessus tout, n'essaie pas de la retenir. Si elle te revient, elle sera à toi pour toujours. Si elle ne te revient pas, c'est que dès le départ elle n'étais pas à toi”
― Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?

“Books tell us stories, they allow us to vicariously live out snippets of other lives, but they cannot take you in their arms and comfort you when you’re scared.”
― Guillaume Musso, The Reunion

“Cette bonne humeur qu'il affichait en toutes circonstances cachait sa part d'ombre et de souffrance et son naturel jovial cédait quelquefois la place aux idées noires et au découragement.”
― Guillaume Musso, Seras-tu là?

“Les livres ont une singularité qui confine à la magie : ils sont un passeport pour l'ailleurs, une grande évasion. Ils peuvent servir de viatique pour affronter les épreuves de la vie.”
― Guillaume Musso

“The problem with books is that they end.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Full of disclaimers, you're like a warning label on a pack of cigarettes.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Really, though, there are only two kinds of weather: hoodie weather and weather where you wear a hoodie anyway.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Sometimes the truth is a secret you're keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“I may not be able to cure cancer or end world hunger, but small kindnesses go a long way.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“I wasted time and missed fun because I cared about the wrong things.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn