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#1

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places

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#3

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, happiness, inspiration, life

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#4

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#5

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

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#6

“I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

tags: ammends, atonement, love

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#7

“sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#8

“We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

tags: anorexia, bed, bulimia, eating-disorders, inpatient, mental-illness, residential, treatment

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#9

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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#10

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, jennifer-niven

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#11

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#12

“We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

tags: actors, pretending

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#13

“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

tags: alex-fuentes, bhie, fairy-tales, fiction, on-fiction, perfect-chemistry, simon-elkeles, wishes, young-adult

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#14

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: compassion, life, suffering

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#15

“But every time I near sleep, I'm scared shitless. Because the memories are coming faster now, pouring through me, as if I've broken the handle on the faucet. They are coming, no matter how much is hurts. And all I can do is hold my breath and try not to drown.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

tags: alone, dreams, hard-times, inspirational, loneliness, love, power, sadness

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#16

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: happy, love, mind, peace, relaxation, sleep, thoughts

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#17

“The girl in the mirror was too much and not enough.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

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#18

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, depression, experience, hurting, mental-illness, ya

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#19

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

tags: depression, sadness, suicide

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#20

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

tags: depression, pain, trauma

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#21

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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#22

“So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

tags: choices-and-consequences, decision-making

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#23

“You've got the killer instincts of a houseplant.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

tags: houseplant, instinct

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