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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“Act first, explain later.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“War is sweet to those who have never fought.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“There’s no such thing as too much Disney.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“My heart didn't fail, someone failed my heart.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“No matter how much you think you know a person—no matter how pretty they act, or how popular they seem, you can never know what their lives are really like.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“The problem is, there is absolutely nothing "fun" about falling in love. Nope. Mostly it just makes you feel sick and crazy and anxious and nervous that it's going to end miserably and ruin your whole life. And guess what: Then it does.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“When you're in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“Hell is when people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“But the sort of sucky thing is, time doesn’t necessarily heal all wounds. Sometimes, it just makes the wounds worse.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“Sometimes, friends drift in and out of our lives like fashion accessories—in one season and out the next.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“All of a sudden I felt invisible. Forgotten. Like the universe had played a really mean practical joke on me, even though I've never done anything to deserve it.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had, or maybe still had but that they didn't agree with.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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