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  • #1
    Neil Young
    “It's hard enough losing with out the confusion of knowing I tried.”
    Neil Young, Neil Young Complete 1974-1979

  • #2
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #3
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #4
    J.D. Salinger
    “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
    J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #5
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #6
    “I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.”
    Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe

  • #7
    Harper Lee
    “I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a
    woman to do that kind of work.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #8
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #9
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #10
    Ibn-e-Safi
    “Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
    Ibn-e-Safi

  • #11
    Harper Lee
    “Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
    Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

  • #12
    Harper Lee
    “[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”
    Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

  • #13
    Harper Lee
    “You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won’t find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn’t make them subhuman.”
    Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

  • #14
    Harper Lee
    “I can't beat you, I can't join you.”
    Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

  • #15
    Harper Lee
    “I guess it’s like an airplane: they’re the drag and we’re the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we’re nose-heavy, too much of them and we’re tail-heavy—it’s a matter of balance.”
    Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

  • #16
    Cherie Priest
    “And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
    Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    John Green
    “no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #19
    John Green
    “True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #20
    John Green
    “Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #21
    John Green
    “It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
    tags: love

  • #22
    John Green
    “One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #23
    John Green
    “And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #24
    John Green
    “When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #25
    John Green
    “It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know?”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #26
    John Green
    “I missed everybody. To be alive is to be missing.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #27
    John Green
    “I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #28
    John Green
    “I couldn't make myself happy, but I could make people around me miserable.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #29
    Tamora Pierce
    “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
    Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

  • #30
    Curtis Sittenfeld
    “I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
    Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep



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