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  • #1
    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #2
    Anthony Doerr
    “So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #3
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #4
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #5
    Markus Zusak
    “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #6
    Markus Zusak
    “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #7
    Markus Zusak
    “The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #9
    “I will never be at ease while watching the sunset, knowing our stories will never end with the same words. All sunsets have their own story, it is just that ours will always fall incomplete.”
    Robert M. Drake, Beautiful Chaos

  • #10
    Anthony Doerr
    “But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #11
    Leslye Walton
    “By this point Viviane Lavender had loved Jack Griffith for twelve years, which was far more than half of her life. If she thought of her love as a commodity and were to, say, eat it, it would fill 4,745 cherry pies. If she were to preserve it, she would need 23,725 glass jars and labels and a basement spanning the length of Pinnacle Lane.

    If she were to drink it, she'd drown.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

  • #12
    Leslye Walton
    “Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
    tags: fate

  • #13
    Leslye Walton
    “To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a mutation. To my great misfortune, I was once mistaken for an angel. To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. But I knew the truth—deep down, I always did.
    I was just a girl.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

  • #14
    Leslye Walton
    “She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
    tags: life

  • #15
    Mindy Kaling
    “Until I realized: this long expanse of free time to rekindle friendships is not real. We will never come home to each other again and we will never again have each other’s undivided attention. That version of our friendship is over forever. And when I remember this, and it usually happens in those awful, quiet evening hours on Sunday nights, after dinner but before bed, I just lie on my sofa and cry for half an hour.”
    Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

  • #16
    Mindy Kaling
    “I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you don’t got it? Flaunt it. ’Cause what are we even doing here if we’re not flaunting it?”
    Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

  • #17
    Gustave Flaubert
    “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #18
    Leslye Walton
    “She spent her days trying to forget the sound of his voice, and her nights trying to remember.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

  • #19
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #20
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen - because you love each other.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Landline

  • #21
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You don't know when you're twenty-three.
    You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.
    She didn't know at twenty-three.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Landline

  • #22
    Jenny  Lawson
    “When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
    Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

  • #23
    Jojo Moyes
    “You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #24
    Jojo Moyes
    “I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #25
    Rupi Kaur
    “Every time you
    tell your daughter
    you yell at her
    out of love
    you teach her to confuse
    anger with kindness
    which seems like a good idea
    till she grows up to
    trust men who hurt her
    cause they look so much
    like you.”
    Rupi Kaur

  • #26
    Rupi Kaur
    “Our backs tell stories
    no books have the spine to carry”
    Rupi Kaur

  • #27
    Rupi Kaur
    “The kindest words my father said to me
    Women like you drown oceans.”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #28
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • #29
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #30
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me



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