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  • #1
    Wally Lamb
    “Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
    Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

  • #2
    Wally Lamb
    “If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”
    Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

  • #3
    Gillian Flynn
    “Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”
    Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

  • #4
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    John Green
    “We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #6
    Kerri Maniscalco
    “Love is the most powerful magic. Above all else, remember that. It will always guide you where you need to go.”
    Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

  • #7
    Kerri Maniscalco
    “A good book was its own brand of magic, one I could safely indulge in without fear of getting caught by those who hunted. I loved escaping from reality, especially during times of trouble. Stories made everything possible.”
    Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

  • #8
    Victoria Schwab
    “And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
    Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
    Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?
    And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says 'Always.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #9
    Victoria Schwab
    “It is the kind of day designed for wood fires, and mugs of tea, and well-loved books.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #10
    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #11
    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #12
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #13
    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #14
    Sarah J. Maas
    “She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

  • #15
    Jojo Moyes
    “You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
    Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

  • #16
    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #17
    Jon Krakauer
    “He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #18
    Sally Rooney
    “Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #19
    Sally Rooney
    “I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #20
    Sally Rooney
    “Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
    Sally Rooney , Normal People

  • #21
    Sally Rooney
    “All these years, they’ve been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting to make room, taking certain unlikely positions.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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