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“Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together.

“Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.”
“Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...”
― Sarah Waters

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
― Aphra Behn

“Sometimes things happen in life that you didn’t plan for. All you can do is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan.”
― Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“I don’t love you despite this. I love you, including this. Every part of you, even parts you don’t know.”
― Alessandra Torre, Black Lies

“True love makes a person reckless, makes them take risks and make sacrifices. True love tests the boundaries of our person, makes us yearn to be better and fight for the ground we stand on. I will fight for this love. Lie for it. Steal for it. It’s worthy of that.”
― Alessandra Torre, Black Lies

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“This love is worth the unsaid truths. The hidden lies.”
― Alessandra Torre, Black Lies

“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum