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“I don’t understand why people are such snobs about books. If you enjoy romances, read them. I don’t want Thanksgiving dinner every day. Some days I want a ham sandwich and a dozen chocolate chip cookies. And some days I want to read Jane Austen, and other days I want to read Agatha Christie, or maybe some author that no one has ever heard of who writes fun books that make me smile.”
― Diana Xarissa, Cars and Cold Cases

“Love is quite like reading, I expect. Once you know how, you can’t ever imagine not doing it.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Highwayman

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I'm not playing! I really am stupid!”
― Stuart Gibbs, Spy School

“Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive.
And then I answer :
I would also be alive." - Oliver.”
― Erich Segal, Oliver's Story

“A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. —[Sara]”
― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

“I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Married by Morning

“I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

-Ella Varner”
― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger

“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”
― Linda Howard, Kill and Tell

“He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.”
― Linda Howard, Kill and Tell

“I have a rule: Walk out, crawl back. If a man does the first, then he has to do the second to get back on good terms with me.”
― Linda Howard, To Die For

“He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens. Usually it was bad shit, sometimes it was good shit, but it was always random shit. You lived your life, & when the run was ended, that was it. Nothing.”
― Linda Howard, Death Angel

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

“...hurting was better than dying.”
― Linda Howard, Cover of Night

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“You could’ve told me your mom and sister are the ugly ones in the family.”
― Mariana Zapata, Dear Aaron

“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I'm living a charmed life.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I'm always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I'm hopelessly in love with him.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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

“Can ambiguous social situations kindly go fuck themselves?”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“That has to be the best part of being in love—the feeling of having a home in someone else’s brain.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I think self-consciousness is in my bones.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“There's no such thing as a good idea when you're in seventh grade.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda