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  • #1
    Nina LaCour
    “We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They fill us with longing. But also. They tell us to remember; they remind us of life. Remember, they say, how much it hurts to have your heart broken.”
    Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You

  • #2
    Nina LaCour
    “Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we're really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway?”
    Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You

  • #3
    Nina LaCour
    “The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.”
    Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You
    tags: life

  • #4
    Nina LaCour
    “When you love someone, you are sure. You don’t need time to decide. You don’t say stop and start over and over, like you’re playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it.”
    Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You

  • #6
    Marie Lu
    “I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.”
    Marie Lu, The Young Elites

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

  • #9
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

  • #10
    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #11
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #12
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

  • #13
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Why are you crying?"
    "Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

  • #14
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

  • #15
    Francesca Zappia
    “You found me in a constellation.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #16
    Francesca Zappia
    “There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt.
    The doubt itself is a stupid thing, without sense or feeling, blind and straining at the end of a long chain. The monster though, is smart. It's always watching, and when I am cmpletely sure of myself, it unchains the doubt and lets it run wild. even when I know it's coming, I can't stop it.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #17
    Francesca Zappia
    “Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #18
    Francesca Zappia
    “Maybe that’s normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.”
    Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

  • #19
    Amanda Lovelace
    “the love
    some girls
    have for
    other girls
    is
    so gentle
    & so soft
    & so fucking
    beautiful,
    &
    these girls
    deserve
    to have
    better stories
    than the ones
    where they
    are murdered
    because they love
    with too much
    of their
    hearts.

    -love is never a weakness.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

  • #20
    Amanda Lovelace
    “you have
    been the
    star
    of each
    & every
    one of
    my
    nightmares.

    "- you left but you stayed.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

  • #21
    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #22
    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #23
    Becky Albertalli
    “Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #24
    Becky Albertalli
    “White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: glbt

  • #25
    Libba Bray
    “But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?”
    Libba Bray, The Diviners

  • #26
    Susanna Kaysen
    “Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.”
    Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

  • #27
    Susanna Kaysen
    “Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.”
    Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

  • #28
    Rick Riordan
    “Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?"

    He shrugged. "Technically, yes. But if I sit alone at my table, strange things happen. Cracks open in the floor. Zombies crawl out and start roaming around. It's a mood disorder. I can't control it. That's what I told Chiron. "

    "And is it true?" I asked.

    Nico smiled thinly. "I have a note from my doctor."

    Will raised his hand. "I'm his doctor.”
    Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

  • #29
    Libba Bray
    “For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”
    Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams

  • #30
    Libba Bray
    “So. Tell me,” Marlowe tried gamely, “what do you think is man’s greatest invention?”

    Jericho turned his head just slightly toward Marlowe, looking him straight in the eye. “God.”
    Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams

  • #31
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo



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