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“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Sometimes keeping a secret seems like the right thing to do because telling the truth might hurt someone and makes it seem like you don't love them. But really, telling the truth is the right thing to do. It's the most loving thing to do.
-Kaylee”
― Ginny L. Yttrup, Words

“Kaylee, an innocent child, paid the price for others' poor choices—just like Christ, who was also completely innocent, paid the price for my choices.”
― Ginny L. Yttrup, Words

“Look beyond a person's actions and see their heart. Look for what's causing them to act the way they act, then you'll understand them better.”
― Ginny L. Yttrup, Words

“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out. (2)”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
― Gayle Forman , Where She Went

“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Upright and do right make all right.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.”
― Mem Fox, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Lost time is never found again.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“A friend in need is a friend indeed!”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Speak little, do much.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Does adversity build character? . . . It does not. Almost all people can stand adversity of one sort or another. If you want to test a person’s character, give him power.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“Somehow, for the most part, our parents and grandparents managed to disagree with their neighbors and still remain neighborly. And they usually did it from their front porches. Today, most of us don’t even have front porches. We have retreated to the backyard, where a single opinion can be isolated and enforced by a privacy fence.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“I thought about falling to my knees on purpose. This was the kind of beauty you worshiped. The kind you built temples for and offered sacrifices to. I wished I had something in my empty hands to give her, but what would a goddess want from a mediocre mortal like me?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight / Life and Death

“We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave