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“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.
'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’
...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Mostly they laughed because they laughed, feeding off each other until they could barely stand.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“Forever is composed of nows..”
― Emily Dickinson

“I think the future deserves our faith.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“My soul needs yours”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“You were my single greatest adventure.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher, On the Other Side

“There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Her fingertips are made of love. When she speaks, her voice is made of love.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“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

“Beauty that arose out of pain.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“even though she didn't love him, it was clear to both of them that their souls were made of the same stuff.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher, On the Other Side

“That's how I remember things, anyway. I remember stories. I connect the dots and then out of that comes a story. And the dots that don't fit into the story just slide away, maybe. Like when you spot a constellation. You look up and you don't see all the stars. All the stars just look like the big fugging random mess that they are. But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky. Hassan told me once you think like that, too - that you see connections everywhere - so you're a natural born storyteller, it turns out.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines