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“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

“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

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
― John Green

“Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Even a superhero needs a place to be normal.”
― Kim Harrison, Something Deadly This Way Comes

“Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked.”
― Kim Harrison, Once Dead, Twice Shy

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

“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“This is what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“It takes forty muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over it.”
― Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

“Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial.”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates