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“I don't know, Mom. Now that I'm about to graduate, I plan on being more spontaneous."
Mom opened her eyes and burst out laughing.
I said, "Got spontaneity on the calendar for next Tuesday.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

tags: book, spontaneous, the-memory-book

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#2

“I think people fake that they're having fun a lot of the time in photos, because they want people to think they're having fun. Well, that's not life, is it?”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

tags: fake-people

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#3

“There is no secret language, Future Sam, that you have to speak in order to talk to someone you like. You just talk to them. Bonus”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

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#4

“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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#5

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#6

“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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#7

“Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#8

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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#9

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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#10

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: a-monster-calls

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#11

“Trust your gut. Not your heart, because it’s a people pleaser, and not your brain, because it relies too heavily on logic.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Three

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#12

“Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Three

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#13

“Adults like to pretend that our feelings aren’t as big and important as theirs—that we’re too young to really know what we want. But I think what we want is similar to what they want. We want to find someone who believes in us. Who will take our side and make us feel less lonely.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Three

tags: colleen-hoover, never-never

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#14

“We want to find someone who believes in us. Who will take our side and make us feel less lonely.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Three

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#15

“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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#16

“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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#17

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

tags: be-brave, embrace-change, love, take-the-risk

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#18

“We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?”
― Francesca Lia Block, Love in the Time of Global Warming

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#19

“The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Love in the Time of Global Warming

tags: courage, fear, love, warrior

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#20

“I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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#21

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: fools, lies, pretending, pretense, truth

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#22

“What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: evil, humanity, life, rape, war

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#23

“You have to imagine things before you can do them. Stories help us see.”
― Francesca Lia Block, The Island of Excess Love

tags: storytelling

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#24

“We all have different capacities for failure.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

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#25

“When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

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#26

“One day isn't your whole life. A day is just a day.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

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