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“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“...we’d be okay. Not perfect, not entirely healthy, not even rational where our love for one another was concerned. Just okay. Merely sufficient, at best. But there’d be only acceptance—never shame—in being two divine failures as we emerged from slumber, perfectly flawed, and wide awake.”
― AngstGoddess003, Wide Awake

“And the raw feeling that it ignited within me made me fucking whimper into her mouth as I tugged her hair. It was something so fucking new and alien and more intense than anything I had ever felt before. I didn’t know what name to give it. I couldn’t discern anything from the raw need to be closer to her. I had no way of knowing how close it was to the love I had been desperately seeking, but I knew it was on a completely new level for me. A level above simple caring and friendship and adoration, and even lust. And I fucking basked in it.”
― AngstGoddess003, Wide Awake

“My brain is gooey like warm cookies.”
― Angstgoddess003, Wide Awake

“Like a date?” “I hope so? I intend to flirt.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Without question.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“But what can I say? I must be a conundrum wrapped in a mystery tied with a puzzle shoved in a pickle jar.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“I don’t normally kiss before the first date,” I tell him. “But you’re the exception to the rule.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“What did you say when I asked you to marry me exactly at midnight?"
" You’ll never forget what I said because I think you are still deaf from how loud I screamed YES into your ear. Are we still going to be emailing each other from the same couch on Valentine’s Day in fifty years?"
"Without question.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“You’re too precious to put into words. I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“A home isn't always the house we live in. It's also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“I'm afraid I don't have magic."
"You do, Mr. Baker. Arthur told me that there can be magic in the ordinary.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“It’s always the ones who are the quietest who often have the greatest things to say.”
― T.J. Klune

“Because even the bravest of us can still be afraid sometimes, so long as we don’t let our fear become all we know.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Sometimes I think I like you,” Gus said. “And then you talk or breathe or exist and I’m not so sure.”
― T.J. Klune, How to Be a Normal Person