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  • #1
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #2
    Joseph Heller
    “You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second."

    "I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed."

    "You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs, or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate."

    "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously."

    "You're antagonistic to the idea of being robbed, exploited, degraded, humiliated, or deceived. Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. Corruption depresses you. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic-depressive!"

    "Yes, sir. Perhaps I am."

    "Don't try to deny it."

    "I'm not denying it, sir," said Yossarian, pleased with the miraculous rapport that finally existed between them. "I agree with all you've said.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #3
    Og Mandino
    “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
    Og Mandino

  • #4
    “It’s not the world that’s cruel. It’s the people in it.”
    Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #7
    “It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”
    Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

  • #8
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #9
    Jennifer Niven
    “Lovely' is a lovely word that should be used more often”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #10
    Can you hear my heart? I want to ask him.

    I want you to make a list of all your favorite things, and I want to be on it.
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #11
    Joseph Heller
    “Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #12
    Mary Oliver
    “it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
    Mary Oliver, Red Bird

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #15
    Richard Siken
    “A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
                        but then he’s still left
    with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                                                                            but then he’s still left with his hands.”
    Richard Siken, Crush

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #17
    Jennifer Niven
    “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #18
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #19
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #20
    Jennifer Niven
    “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

  • #21
    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #22
    Amal El-Mohtar
    “I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
    Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, L'Étranger

  • #24
    “Is your learning curve a horizontal line?”
    Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

  • #26
    Shane L. Koyczan
    “and if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself
    get a better mirror
    look a little closer
    stare a little longer
    because there’s something inside you
    that made you keep trying
    despite everyone who told you to quit
    you built a cast around your broken heart
    and signed it yourself
    you signed it
    “they were wrong”
    SHANE KOYCZAN

  • #27
    Becky Albertalli
    “Really, though, there are only two kinds of weather: hoodie weather and weather where you wear a hoodie anyway.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #28
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #30
    “Andrew dug a finger in Neil's cheek and forcibly turned his head away. "Don't look at me like that. I am not your answer, and you sure as fuck aren't mine.”
    Nora Sakavic, The King's Men



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