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    John Green
    “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: sirius-black
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: life-missions, sirius-black
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: live-death-love
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    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
    tags: books
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    John Green
    “Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: fiction, mystery, nerdfighters, ya, young-adult
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  • #8
    John Green
    “Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: margo, paper, paper-towns, quentin, towns
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Veronica Roth
    “We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Veronica Roth
    “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other”
    ― Veronica Roth
    tags: hope, inspirational, pain
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    Veronica Roth
    “Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"

    I raise my eyebrows.

    She raises hers, too, mimicking me.

    "The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: life
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    John Green
    “I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, skeleton
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    John Green
    “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, hazel-grace, john-green, love, tfios
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    David Levithan
    “when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: breaking-up
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Don't let the muggles get you down.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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  • #21
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    J. Michael Straczynski
    “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2
    tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity
    1900 likes

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    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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    John Green
    “When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
    ― John Green
    tags: looking-for-alaska
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  • #25
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    John Green
    “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    David Levithan
    “It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
    ― David Levithan, Every Day
    tags: ignored, loneliness
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    Sylvia Plath
    “But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: life, relatable, truth
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  • #29
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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  • #30
    Andrew Smith
    “And then it's always that one word that makes you so different and puts you outside the overlap of everyone else; and that word is so fucking big and loud, it's the only thing anyone ever hears when your name is spoken.

    And whenever that happens to us, all the other words that make us the same disappear in its shadow.”
    ― Andrew Smith, Winger
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