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#1

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: john-green, love, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#2

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: aza-holmes, john-green, life, page-257, stories, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#3

“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#4

“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#5

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: first-love, love

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#6

“Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
"Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: clockwork-angel

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#7

“Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--"
"Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."
The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.
"Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: clockwork-angel

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#8

“So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: clockwork-angel, humour, nathaniel-gray, will-herondale, wit

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#9

“Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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#10

“Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't understand what makes them come out like that!"
"Hunger," said Jem. "Were you think about blood?"
"No."
"Were you thinking about eating me?" Will inquired.
"No!"
"No one would blame you," said Jem. "He's very annoying.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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#11

“Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance."
"I have a red and blue striped waistcoat," Henry interjected, reaching for the peas.
"And if that isn't proof that those two colors should never be seen together under Heaven, I don't know what is.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: clockwork-angel

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#12

“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: doom, emilia, fate, foolishness, hope, power, refugee, ruta-sepetys, salt-to-the-sea, sea, sky

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#13

“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: family, salt-to-the-sea, war

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#14

“Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: war, world-war-ii

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#15

“Guilt is a hunter.
Fate is a hunter.
Shame is a hunter.
Fear is a hunter.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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#16

“Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: family, sea, war

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#17

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: death-of-a-loved-one, loss, love, mothers-and-daughters, unconditional-love

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#18

“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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#19

“A town always looked different once you'd returned, like a house where all the furniture had shifted three inches. You wouldn't mistake it for a stranger's house but you'd keeping banging your shins on the table corners.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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#20

“You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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#21

“How real was a person if you could shed her in a thousand miles?”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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#22

“That was the thing about death. Only the specifics of it hurt. Death, in a general sense, was background noise. She stood in the silence of it.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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#23

“You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood. Somehow, the Vignes twins believed themselves capable of both.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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#24

“Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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#25

“Enough studying, Joana. Sometimes living life is more instructive than studying it.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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#26

“It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said.
Safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: death, depression, ptsd, rape, salt-to-the-sea

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#27

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

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#28

“Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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#29

“Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

tags: gregor-samsa

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#30

“Any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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