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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“I want to thank him for not making me say a word, and getting it all the same, but I just remain silent as the sun pours heat and light, as if from a pitcher, all over our bewildered heads.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“Before he finally hops on his borad, he hugs me good-bye and we hold on to each other so tightly under the sad, starless sky that for a moment I feel as if our heartbreak were one instead of two.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

“I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.”
― Truddi Chase, When Rabbit Howls

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Amazingly, even in midst of trauma, people continue to smile, to love, to celebrate, to create, and to renew.”
― David B. Feldman, Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success

“Do not accept an evil you can change.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“My life is never stable. It’ as if I balance on a series of tectonic plates like the ones under the Pacific Ring of Fire.”
― Mary Jennifer Payne, Since You've Been Gone