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  • #1
    Becky Albertalli
    “I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. You have to have a crush on the exact right person at the exact right moment. And they have to like you back. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. It’s almost unfathomable that it happens as often as it does.”
    Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

  • #2
    Becky Albertalli
    “Even if he likes me, I’m not sure he’d like me naked. I hate that I’m even thinking that. I hate hating my body. Actually, I don’t even hate my body. I just worry everyone else might. Because chubby girls don’t get boyfriends, and they definitely don’t have sex. Not in movies—not really—unless it’s supposed to be a joke. And I don’t want to be a joke.”
    Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

  • #3
    Becky Albertalli
    “Something like that. But you know, there's an upside here. Because when you spend so much time just intensely wanting something, and then you actually get the thing? It's magic.” All of a sudden, I feel like crying. In a good way. In the best way. Because I know exactly what she means. It's butterflies and haziness and heart eyes, but underneath all that, there's this bass line of I can't believe this. I can't believe this is me. I can't quite articulate the sweetness of that feeling. It's finding out the door you were banging on is finally unlocked. Maybe it was unlocked the whole time.”
    Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

  • #4
    Becky Albertalli
    “There’s just something terrifying about admitting you like someone. In a way, it’s actually easier when there’s no chance of anything happening. But there’s this threshold where things suddenly become possible. And then your cards are on the table. And there you are, wanting, right out in the open.”
    Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

  • #5
    Becky Albertalli
    “It's funny, because you always think the hard part is meeting someone the first time. It's not. It's the second time, because you've already used up all the obvious topics of conversation. And even if you haven't, it's strange and heavy-handed to introduce random conversational topics at this stage in the game. Hi, Reid. Let's converse about topics. HOW MANY SIBLINGS DO YOU HAVE? WHAT BOOKS DO YOU LIKE?”
    Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

  • #6
    Becky Albertalli
    “I can’t seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.”
    Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

  • #7
    Becky Albertalli
    “I think every relationship is actually a million relationships.”
    Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

  • #8
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #14
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #15
    Francesca Zappia
    “You found me in a constellation.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #16
    Francesca Zappia
    “Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #17
    Francesca Zappia
    “Everyone's interesting if you stare at them long enough.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #18
    Francesca Zappia
    “Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #19
    Erin Morgenstern
    “The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #20
    Erin Morgenstern
    “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #21
    Erin Morgenstern
    “The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #22
    Erin Morgenstern
    “You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus.
    You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #26
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #28
    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    John Lennon

  • #29
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    Bill Keane

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #31
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline



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