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“Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“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

“I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 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

“Dear Jane,

Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes.

Yours,
Will Grayson”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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

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

“There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“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

“Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“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

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It’s time for second chances. It’s time to remake the world.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Revolutionaries aren't team players.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Silence prevails once again . . . and I’ve decided to eat the crushed glass. Final answer.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“She looks like she’s holding in a dictionary of bad words or a nuclear war.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“You have this maddening little smile sometimes, like you've just thought of something incredibly witty but are afraid to say it in case no one gets the joke.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire