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  • #1
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #2
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #3
    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #4
    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #5
    Adam Silvera
    “No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
    Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

  • #6
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #7
    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #9
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #9
    Leigh Bardugo
    “What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #11
    M.L. Rio
    “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #12
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #14
    Adam Silvera
    “Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
    Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #15
    Olivie Blake
    “The problem with knowledge, is its inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know”
    Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

  • #16
    Neal Shusterman
    “My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #17
    Victoria Schwab
    “But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
    V.E. Schwab, Vicious

  • #18
    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #20
    Neal Shusterman
    “Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #24
    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #25
    Donna Tartt
    “But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
    Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #26
    M.L. Rio
    “Were you in love with him?'
    'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #27
    Neal Shusterman
    “Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears.”
    Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

  • #28
    Neal Shusterman
    “To deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake.
    And I do not make mistakes.”
    Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

  • #29
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would give you a crown if I could," he said. "I would show you the world from the prow of a ship. I would choose you, Zoya. As my general, as my friend, as my bride. I would give you a sapphire the size of an acorn." He reached into his pocket. "And all I would ask in return is that you wear this damnable ribbon in your hair on our wedding day.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

  • #30
    Neal Shusterman
    “So, if you're asking me if it's possible for you to make errors in judgement, the answer is yes. You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition - and it is something I deeply love about humankind.”
    Neal Shusterman, The Toll



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