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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Francesca Zappia
    “Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #3
    Francesca Zappia
    “Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #4
    Francesca Zappia
    “No, you're not a bad person," he said. "And Richter isn't a bad person, and I'm not a bad person. We're just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #5
    Francesca Zappia
    “I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.

    But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #6
    Francesca Zappia
    “Everyone's interesting if you stare at them long enough.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #7
    Francesca Zappia
    “Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?'

    'Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Christina Baker Kline
    “You can't find peace until you fin fall the pieces.”
    Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

  • #10
    Morgan Matson
    “All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”
    Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
    tags: life

  • #11
    Morgan Matson
    “In a well-ordered universe...”
    Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

  • #12
    Morgan Matson
    “This felt like the way you get nervous right before something exciting happens-the moment when you're balanced on the top of the roller coaster, the hush before the surprise party, the second after the diving board but before the water, when you can close your eyes and imagine, for just a second, that you're flying. The feeling that good things were coming, almost here, any moment now.”
    Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

  • #13
    Morgan Matson
    “And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to”
    Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

  • #14
    Morgan Matson
    “We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again”
    Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “Will-"
    "I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and when you're this close to me, I forget who you are. I forget you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #16
    Lisa Unger
    “I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.”
    Lisa Unger, Sliver of Truth

  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #23
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #24
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #25
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."

    Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine.

    "These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  • #26
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver



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