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“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“I guess it's a choice we make," she said.

"What's a choice?" I asked.

And she said, "How much of the world we let in.”
― David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law

“I renamed myself Ari.

If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.

Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Okay is just a word I use so I won't have to talk about what's inside.
Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“And in the morning
they shook their pillows
violently, hoping
all the dreams they lost
that night would tumble out.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“Your kisses are snowflakes:
each one is unique.
They land on me,
before they melt away
and leave me cold.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“Once upon
a dream
in a blanket
of night sky
you asked me
to tell you a story
which began with
us holding hands.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“One day she looked
up and discovered an
opening in her planet.

She wondered if she
wasn't alone after all.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“She read his letter again &
again 'til she found herself
afloat among the stars.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“After you died I realized that
I never really like hunting.

I just like hanging out with you.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt , The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“And when the day is done
I will follow you into the sun.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3

“Blessed are they that crumble; from them new worlds are made.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3

“You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.”
― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

“The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them.”
― Adrienne Maria Vrettos, Skin

“Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?”
― Priscille Sibley, The Promise of Stardust

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I was harder than Dante. I think I'd tried to hide that hardness from him because I'd wanted him to like me. But now he knew. That I was hard. And maybe that was okay. Maybe he could like the fact that I was hard just as I liked the fact that he wasn't hard.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I love swimming"
"I know," I said.
"I love swimming," he said again. He was quiet for a little while. And then he said, "I love swimming—and you."
I didn't say anything.
"Swimming and you, Ari. Those are the things I love the most.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I've tried.”
― Sarah Kay, B

“She once told me that she loved me because I was the only thing she could hear. She can feel the vibration of the strings through the carved vessel of her instrument, but I am inside her. I am a song soaked into each bone of her secret body where the world has not been able to wander.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“It’s true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don’t meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly.

There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love