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“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

“How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big bathtub.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“When I look at her now, I think, for just one second, that God doesn't hate me so much after all.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Main characters never die in books. If they did, the story would be ruined, or over.”
“Everybody is a main character to someone. There are no minor characters.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
― Charles Dickens

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“I don't understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It's like we're incapable of normal human interaction.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“You're doing the girl thing. Saying you're happy when you're not.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”
― Frank Serafini

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm