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  • #1
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #2
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.”
    J. R. R. Tolkein

  • #6
    Amie Kaufman
    “But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”
    Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars

  • #7
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #10
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #12
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Belief?"
    "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?"
    Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?"
    "The most important kind, I think.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #13
    Brandon Sanderson
    “In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #14
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Just when you think you're having a scene without Simon, he drops in to remind you that everyone else is a supporting character in his catastrophe.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #15
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Sharing a room with the person you want most is like sharing a room with an open fire.

    He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good--that there is no good--that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it.

    But you do it anyway.
    And then...
    Well. Then you burn.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #16
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #17
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I'd wake up every morning and think, 'This will end in flames.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #18
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I can tell she still finds me both loathsome and distasteful, but Rome wasn't built on mutual admiration.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #19
    Rainbow Rowell
    “You were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #20
    Rainbow Rowell
    “My road to hell isn't paved with good intentions - or bad - it's just my road.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #21
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #22
    John Green
    “You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #23
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #24
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #25
    “Andrew had nearly killed four men for assaulting Nicky and would have broken Allison's neck for hitting Aaron, but when it came to crimes against his own person Andrew couldn't care less. He held his life in less regard than he did anything else. Neil hated that with a ferocity that was nauseating.”
    Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

  • #26
    C.S. Pacat
    “To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.”
    C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

  • #27
    Mary Oliver
    “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #28
    Mary Oliver
    “Instructions for living a life.
    Pay attention.
    Be astonished.
    Tell about it.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #29
    Mary Oliver
    “to live in this world

    you must be able
    to do three things
    to love what is mortal;
    to hold it

    against your bones knowing
    your own life depends on it;
    and, when the time comes to let it go,
    to let it go”
    Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

  • #30
    Mary Oliver
    “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
    Mary Oliver



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