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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune”
― Naoko Takeuchi

“Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate.”
― Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

“It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.”
― Chelsea Handler , Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

“The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Our love has been the thread through the
labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife