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#1

“Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: humor

#2

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: imperfect, love

22289 likes

#3

“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

6775 likes

#4

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

tags: peeta

12864 likes

#5

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

1848 likes

#6

“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”
― Jodi Picoult

923 likes

#7

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: daughters, growing-up, love, mothers

1445 likes

#8

“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

1003 likes

#9

“It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

786 likes

#10

“One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep

tags: height, humor, small, stature

32 likes

#11

“books are like confort food without the calories”
― Elizabeth Berg, Home Safe

42 likes

#12

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

tags: parents

485 likes

#13

“God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

tags: god, prayers

903 likes

#14

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

174 likes

#15

“I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

75 likes

#16

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

tags: hope, reality

10 likes

#17

“People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

79 likes

#18

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

tags: books, friendship

4243 likes

#19

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

17209 likes

#20

“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

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

23994 likes

#21

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

12012 likes

#22

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: death-and-dying

4724 likes

#23

“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars

1611 likes

#24

“You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: beauty

585 likes

#25

“Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: promises

932 likes

#26

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: self

2000 likes

#27

“What the hell happened to Pluto?!”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

61 likes

#28

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16493 likes

#29

“Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

182 likes

#30

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: johngreen, lookingforalaska

13168 likes

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