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“Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“I only have one heart, and I'm saving it.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“America, you are full of nothing but bad ideas. Great intentions but awful ideas.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers. Most importantly, you can be queen and still be a bride.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“It’s hard to know everything about people close to you, even the people you love the most.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Fun math is an oxymoron.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite

“It's just the way it is. The sky is blue, the sun is bright, and Aspen endlessly loves America. It's how the world was designed to be.”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite

“Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.”
― Kiera Cass, The Guard

“That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Love: It will kill you and save you, both”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut.

Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck.

Mama, Mama, put me to bed
I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead.
I met an Invalid, and fell for his art
He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

-From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall

“I know that the whole point—the only point—is to
find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to
let them go.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and
when you don’t.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall