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  • #1
    Osamu Dazai
    “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

    Everything passes.

    That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

    Everything passes.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #2
    Osamu Dazai
    “Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #3
    Osamu Dazai
    “Last year nothing happened
    The year before nothing happened
    And the year before that nothing
    happened.”
    Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

  • #4
    Osamu Dazai
    “He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #5
    Osamu Dazai
    “For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #6
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
    Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

  • #7
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.”
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

  • #8
    Chūya Nakahara
    “Song of Upbringing"

    I

    infancy

    the snow that fell on me

    was like floss silk



    childhood

    the snow that fell on me

    was like sleet



    seventeen to nineteen

    the snow that fell on me

    dropped like hail



    twenty to twenty-two

    the snow that fell on me

    seemed like balls of ice



    twenty-three

    the snow that fell on me

    looked like a blizzard



    twenty-four

    the snow that fell on me

    became so mournful



    II

    the snow that falls on me

    falls like petals

    when the burning firewood makes a noise

    and the frozen sky darkens



    the snow that fell on me

    so delicate and lovely

    fell reaching out a hand



    the snow that fell on me

    was like tears

    that sink into a burning forehead



    to the snow that fell on me

    I offered heartfelt thanks and prayed to God

    that I would live a long life



    the snow that fell on me

    was so chaste”
    Chuya Nakahara

  • #9
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I am being perfectly fucking civil.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #10
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."

    "This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #11
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
    Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #12
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You missed World Hist."
    "Did you get notes for me?"
    "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #13
    Victoria Schwab
    “She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

  • #14
    Victoria Schwab
    “I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

  • #15
    Victoria Schwab
    “Kell has only two faces. The one he wears for the world at large, and the one he wears for those he loves.” He sipped his wine.
    “For us.” Lila’s expression hardened. “Whatever he feels for me, it isn’t love.”
    “Because it isn’t soft and sweet and doting?” Rhy rocked back, stretching against the pillar. “Do you know how many times he’s nearly beat me senseless out of love? How many times I’ve done the same? I’ve seen the way he looks at those he hates …” He shook his head. “There are very few things my brother cares about, and even fewer people.”
    Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

  • #16
    Rick Riordan
    “I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”
    Rick Riordan

  • #17
    Francesca Zappia
    “You found me in a constellation.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #18
    Francesca Zappia
    “There are monsters in the sea.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #19
    Francesca Zappia
    “Truth is the worst monster, because it never really goes away.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #21
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #22
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #23
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #24
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery."
    "You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks," Gansey mused as he began to walk again.
    Blue blinked. "What?"
    Over his shoulder, Gansey said, "Next to the wall plug.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #25
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every forbidden word possible, often in compound-word form. As Adam stared at his lap, penitent, he mused that there was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together, a black-painted poetry. It was far less hateful sounding than when he didn’t swear.
    Ronan finished with, “For the love of … Parrish, take some care, this is not your mother’s 1971 Honda Civic.”
    Adam lifted his head and said, “They didn’t start making the Civic until ’73.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #26
    David Levithan
    “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
    David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #27
    Victoria Schwab
    “I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

  • #28
    V.E. Schwab
    “I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
    "Seen what?"
    Her smile widened. "Everything.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

  • #29
    Laura Thalassa
    “Getting angry at one of the horsemen of the apocalypse for bringing about the end of man is like getting angry at ice for being cold.”
    Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

  • #30
    Laura Thalassa
    “A woman should not be oddly pleasing. She should be a ball-busting, skull-crushing, badass motherfucker who is impossible to forget.”
    Laura Thalassa, Pestilence



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