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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #2
    Cath Crowley
    “But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs, we wouldn't beg to be read to when we're kids. If they were just words, then they'd have no meaning and stories wouldn't have been around since before humans could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words then people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, stop aching because of them, have sex, quite a lot of the time, because of them.”
    Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

  • #3
    Cath Crowley
    “There should be a disconnect button you can push when someone leaves: you’ve fucked me over; therefore I no longer love you. I’m not asking for the button to be connected to an ejector seat that removes them from the universe, just one small button that removes them from your heart.”
    Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue
    tags: henry

  • #4
    Cath Crowley
    “Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”
    Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

  • #5
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I was impressed, and also unnerved. Being around Nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went. He reminded me of the wooden nesting dolls I'd played with as a child. Except instead of getting smaller, he just kept getting grander and more mysterious. Tomorrow, he'd probably tell me he'd built a pleasure palace on the moon. Tough to get to, but quite a view.
    Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #9
    John Green
    “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

  • #11
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I took a breath. “Your highness—”
    “Nikolai,” he corrected. “But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #15
    Ransom Riggs
    “When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #17
    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki.”
    Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

  • #19
    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  • #20
    Rainbow Rowell
    “He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
    I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #20
    John Boyne
    “The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.”
    John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

  • #20
    Jandy Nelson
    “grief is a house
    where the chairs
    have forgotten how to hold us
    the mirrors how to reflect us
    the walls how to contain us

    grief is a house that disappears
    each time someone knocks at the door
    or rings the bell
    a house that blows into the air
    at the slightest gust
    that buries itself deep in the ground
    while everyone is sleeping

    grief is a house where no one can protect you
    where the younger sister
    will grow older than the older one
    where the doors
    no longer let you in
    or out”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #22
    John Boyne
    “Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
    John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

  • #22
    Nicola Yoon
    “Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.”
    Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

  • #22
    Rainbow Rowell
    “I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #23
    Sappho
    “I declare
    That later on,
    Even in an age unlike our own,
    Someone will remember who we are.”
    Sappho, Come Close

  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #26
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Sharing a room with the person you want most is like sharing a room with an open fire.

    He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good--that there is no good--that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it.

    But you do it anyway.
    And then...
    Well. Then you burn.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

  • #27
    David Almond
    “Maybe we were mad that day. Maybe some of the things that seemed to happen didn't really happen at all. Maybe many of the things that seemed to happen in the days and weeks that followed didn't really happen. Maybe it was all because we were young, and because being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad.

    But maybe the best things that we do, and the best things that we are, come from madness.”
    David Almond, A Song for Ella Grey

  • #29
    Patrick Ness
    “We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
    Patrick Ness, More Than This
    tags: lie, life

  • #30
    David Levithan
    “With some people, the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.”
    David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #31
    Patrick Ness
    “A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.”
    Patrick Ness, More Than This

  • #31
    John Boyne
    “...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
    John Boyne , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas



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