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  • #1
    John Green
    “All roads led to her. She was the nexus of all connections his brain made - the wheel's hub”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #2
    E. Lockhart
    “I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
    I like a twist of meaning.
    I endure.”
    E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

  • #3
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #4
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #5
    Jodi Picoult
    “A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #6
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #7
    Jodi Picoult
    “Lie to yourself until it's true.”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #8
    Jodi Picoult
    “If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #9
    Alexandra Potter
    “But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...”
    Alexandra Potter, You're (Not) the One

  • #10
    John Green
    “Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #11
    Jeffrey Archer
    “Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”
    Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

  • #12
    Jeffrey Archer
    “If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.”
    Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

  • #13
    Jeffrey Archer
    “You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”
    Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #19
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #20
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #21
    Gabrielle Zevin
    The words you can’t find, you borrow.
    We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
    My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
    We are not quite novels.

    The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
    We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
    In the end, we are collected works.
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #22
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #23
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “We are not quite novels.
    We are not quite short stories.
    In the end, we are collected works.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #24
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #25
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #26
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #27
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us,” the passage goes, “but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #28
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “A place ain’t a place without a bookstore,”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #29
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

  • #30
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry



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