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“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Boom, boom, fucking boom, Da. I'm done for...”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“¨I think I need you for keeps.¨
¨I think I need you for keeps, too.¨”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“No, no, no, Da, I'm serious," I slurred. "I think I love that girl."

"Well, who's this girl?"

"She's a river," I sighed and closed my eyes. "I'm keeping her Da.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“She makes my heart go, like, whoa. Boom, boom, fucking boom. All the time.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“If this is love, then it's you. You are love.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“I once read somewhere that we mature with damage, not with age.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“I want your trouble, and your complications, and everything else that comes with you.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“I hated humans.
They were such a disappointment.
And to think, god switched dinosaurs for man.
He must be raging.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“Now, tell me who made you cry and I'll fix it.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“Boys with pretty eyes and big muscles mess everything up for girls.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“She was worth it all.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“I just wanted her. For keeps.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“SHANNON LIKE THE RIVER. WILL YOU PLEASE BE MY FRIEND?”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“For once in my life, I wanted a safe place to run to instead of from.
I felt like I was slowly dying in that house.
In my home.
Where I was supposed to lay my head.
Where I was supposed to feel safe.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“When I was with her, I felt like I was drowning and breathing all at once.”
― Chloe Walsh, Redeeming 6

“My whole heart's inside of ya.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
― Fiona Apple

“When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.”
― Fiona Apple

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“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

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath