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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

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

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

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

“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Andrius, I'm...scared."

He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Good men are often more practical than pretty.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“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

“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

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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