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  • #1
    Dr. Seuss
    “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #2
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #3
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #4
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #5
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #7
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #8
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #9
    John Green
    “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #10
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #11
    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #12
    John Green
    “Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #13
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #16
    Stephen Chbosky
    “He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #17
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #18
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #19
    John Green
    “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #20
    John Green
    “I try to live life so that I can live with myself.”
    John Green

  • #21
    John Green
    “The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #22
    John Green
    “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #23
    John Green
    “Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #24
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

  • #25
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #26
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #27
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #28
    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #29
    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #30
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #31
    John Marsden
    “We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
    John Marsden, The Dead of Night



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