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  • #1
    John Green
    “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #2
    John Green
    “Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
    She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #3
    John Green
    “We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #4
    John Green
    “I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    Francesca Zappia
    “People say teenagers think they're immortal, and I agree with that. But I think there's a difference between thinking you're immortal and knowing you can survive. Thinking you're immortal leads to arrogance, thinking you deserve the best. Surviving means having the worst thrown at you and being able to continue on despite that. It means striving for what you want most, even when it seems our of your reach, even when everything is working against you.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #6
    Francesca Zappia
    “No, you're not a bad person," he said. "And Richter isn't a bad person, and I'm not a bad person. We're just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #7
    Francesca Zappia
    “I am real. This”–he put his other hand over the first-“is real. You see me interacting with other people all day long, don’t you? I talk to people; I affect things in the world. I cause things to happen. I am real.”

    “But-but what if this whole place”-I had to suck in air again-“what if everything is inside my head? East Shoal and Scarlet and this bridge and you-what if you’re not real because nothing is real?”

    “If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #8
    Francesca Zappia
    “In a weird way, it felt like he belonged here. He belonged in the land of phoenixes and witches, the place where things were too fantastic to be real.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #9
    Francesca Zappia
    “Was everything made up? Was this whole world inside my head? If I ever woke up from it, would I be inside a padded room somewhere, drooling all over myself?

    Would I even be myself?”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #10
    Francesca Zappia
    “If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #11
    Francesca Zappia
    “He had to be real. Out of everything, he had to be real.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #12
    Francesca Zappia
    “I pushed myself back up. He kept staring at me. I realized I wanted to kiss him.

    I didn't know why. Maybe it was the way he looked at me like I was the only thing he wanted to look at.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #15
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #16
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #17
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #18
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #19
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #20
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #21
    Victor Hugo
    “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #22
    John Green
    “That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #23
    Jennifer Niven
    “And in that moment there’s nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #24
    Jennifer Niven
    “I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #25
    Jennifer Niven
    “What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #26
    Jennifer Niven
    “He says, “ ‘Lovely’ is a lovely word that should be used more often.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #27
    Jennifer Niven
    “Maybe even the smallest places mean something.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #28
    Jennifer Niven
    “You might expect me to say “life,” having just woken up and all, but it’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #29
    Francesca Zappia
    “I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.

    But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #30
    Jennifer Niven
    “The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places



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