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  • #1
    Lauren Oliver
    “Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #2
    Jandy Nelson
    “Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
    Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

  • #3
    Stephanie Perkins
    “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #4
    John Green
    “I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #6
    Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
    “Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
    Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

  • #7
    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

  • #9
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #11
    Nicola Yoon
    “There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
    Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

  • #12
    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #13
    Dodie Smith
    “I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #19
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #20
    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #21
    Jesse Andrews
    “One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.”
    Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  • #22
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #23
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #24
    Stephen Chbosky
    “This moment will just be another story someday.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #25
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #26
    Hank Green
    “Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”
    Hank Green

  • #27
    Hank Green
    “I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.”
    Hank Green

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #30
    “No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”
    They Might Be Giants

  • #31
    Gayle Forman
    “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay



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