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  • #1
    Nicola Yoon
    “There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
    Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

  • #2
    Nicola Yoon
    “Stars are important," I say, laughing.

    "Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”
    Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

  • #3
    Nicola Yoon
    “Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.”
    Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard
    Some do it with a bitter look
    Some with a flattering word
    The coward does it with a kiss
    The brave man with a sword”
    Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never regret thy fall,
    O Icarus of the fearless flight
    For the greatest tragedy of them all
    Is never to feel the burning light.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Jennifer Niven
    “You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #19
    Alice Oseman
    “I don't think I need to try everything to know I don't like it.”
    Alice Oseman, Loveless

  • #20
    Alice Oseman
    “She's happy with who she is. Maybe it's not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think.”
    Alice Oseman, Loveless



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