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  • #1
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    John Green

  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #8
    Jennifer Niven
    “It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #9
    Jennifer Niven
    “The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #10
    Jennifer Niven
    “What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #11
    Jennifer Niven
    “I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can’t stop people from dying. You can’t stop them from going away. You can’t stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #12
    Jennifer Niven
    “We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #13
    Jennifer Niven
    “You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you’re going to stay up on the ledge you’ve made for yourself.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #14
    Jennifer Niven
    “Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #15
    Jennifer Niven
    “Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #16
    Tim Tharp
    “Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
    Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

  • #17
    Tim Tharp
    “Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.”
    Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

  • #18
    Tim Tharp
    “Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.”
    Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

  • #19
    John Green
    “If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #20
    John Green
    “you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #21
    John Green
    “You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #22
    John Green
    “What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.”
    John Green

  • #23
    John Green
    “It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #24
    John Green
    “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #25
    John Green
    “That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #26
    John Green
    “If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.”
    John Green

  • #27
    John Green
    “We all use the future to escape the present.”
    John Green

  • #28
    John Green
    “When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
    John Green

  • #29
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower



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