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  • #1
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #2
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #3
    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #4
    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    John Green

  • #6
    John Green
    “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #7
    John Green
    “When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #8
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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

  • #9
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

  • #10
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

  • #11
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: love

  • #12
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

  • #13
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Sunset is the saddest light there is.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

  • #14
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #15
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #24
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #25
    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    François Rabelais

  • #26
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #27
    I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
    “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #28
    Joseph Heller
    “He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #29
    Joseph Heller
    “[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #30
    Joseph Heller
    “The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22



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