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#1

“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

#2

“And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

tags: kissing, love

236 likes

#3

“They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

tags: heartbreak, love, love-story

195 likes

#4

“For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-image

595 likes

#5

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you—whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

448 likes

#7

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

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135656 likes

#8

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2264 likes

#9

“The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.”
― Ai Yazawa

tags: life, nana

175 likes

#10

“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: music, perception

1541 likes

#11

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

3889 likes

#12

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

511 likes

#13

“There's more to life than being alive.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

132 likes

#14

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29740 likes

#15

“Maybe if I can just sleep for a hundred years, I'll wake up in a better story.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

848 likes

#16

“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

1433 likes

#17

“What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

17 likes

#18

“It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

416 likes

#19

“It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

56 likes

#20

“When he plays
all the flowers swap colors
and years and decades and centuries
of rain pour back into the sky”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

403 likes

#21

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23591 likes

#22

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy

20400 likes

#23

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: love

31300 likes

#24

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy

8737 likes

#25

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

tags: friendship

12513 likes

#26