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#1

“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

16481 likes

#2

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

1737 likes

#3

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18070 likes

#4

“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: life, suffering

903 likes

#5

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50617 likes

#6

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

2099 likes

#7

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased

13078 likes

#8

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

2480 likes

#9

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

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#10

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity

946 likes

#11

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing

2045 likes

#12

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting

4521 likes

#13

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151826 likes

#14

“I like things to be story-shaped.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

21 likes

#15

“I reached out a hand, and touched her. Her body was hard, and slim, and lithe, and her breasts felt like breasts that Gauguin might have painted. Her mouth, in the darkness, was soft and warm against mine.

People come into your life for a reason.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

7 likes

#16

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

tags: homicide, suicide

3526 likes

#17

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: love, writing

1353 likes

#18

“There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

1084 likes

#19

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177554 likes

#20

“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

tags: love

47050 likes

#21

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower

22988 likes

#22

“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

tags: death, love

4424 likes

#23

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

2162 likes

#24

“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

tags: autism, bravery, inspirational

280 likes

#25

“I step through the door anyway, knowing that the hard thing and the right thing are usually the same thing.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

50 likes

#26

“There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis.

This was not one of those times.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: funny

544 likes

#27

“I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: colonel

2221 likes

#28

“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: four, heartbreaking, tobias

3320 likes

#29

“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: agency, choices, love

3215 likes

#30

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: fear, love, power, powerful

1722 likes

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