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#1

“It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass

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#3

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz, carry-on, love

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#4

“Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

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#5

“The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!”
Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?”
“Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!”
― Scott Westerfeld, Behemoth

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#6

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

tags: humanity, stories, storytelling

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#7

“He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

tags: brothers, chaol, chaol-westfall, dorian, dorian-havilliard, friends, friendship, friendship-and-love, heir-of-fire, love, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass

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#8

“Barking spiders!”
― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

tags: epithet

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#9

“Provare dolore è naturale. Superarlo è una questione di scelta.”
― Eugenides, Jeffrey

tags: eugenides, le-vergini-suicide

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#10

“When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken back. What am I?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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#11

“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other books. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

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#12

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I'd wake up every morning and think, 'This will end in flames.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz, simon-snow, tyrannus-basilton-grimm-pitch

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#13

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

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#14

“What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."
He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?"
"I love it." He says
"Why?"
"Because we match.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: adorable, love, mess, romance

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#15

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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#16

“He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz, carry-on, romance, simon

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#17

“Carry on, Simon.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

tags: baz-pitch, carry-on, rainbow-rowell, simon-snow

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#18

“I lean into him, because I'm cold and he's always warm. And because I like to remind him that I'm not afraid of him.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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#19

“I just wanted to tell you that i'm going to carry on. As i am.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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#20

“I saw you.

I held you.

I wanted you.

That's what I came back to tell you. I loved you before I met you, and I loved you more the moment I held you. And I never meant to leav you so soon.
I never would have left you.

Simon, Simon.

My rosebud boy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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#21

“I miss you."
"That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning."
"It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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#22

“You’re never going to find a guy who’s exactly like you—first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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#23

“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: pain, storm, summer

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#24

“I renamed myself Ari.

If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#25

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#26

“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#27

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: answers, love, true, universe

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#28

“We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live.
The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: death, inspiring, universe, we-are-the-ants

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#29

“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: aliens, bullying, death, depression, history, life, loss, love, space, stars, suicide, teen, ya

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#30

“We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: aliens, bullying, death, history, life, loss, love, space, stars, teen, ya

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