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

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“That's what we do. We walk a tightrope every day. Getting out the door is a tightrope. Going grocery shopping is a tightrope. Socializing is a tightrope. Things that most people consider to be normal, daily parts of life are the very things we fear and struggle with the most, and yet here we are, moving forward anyway. That's not weak.”
― Jen Wilde, Queens of Geek

“I’m forever observing, trying to learn how to be an adult human being by watching others, and I’m constantly in awe of how easy some people make it look.”
― Jen Wilde, Queens of Geek

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“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

“Sometimes catastrophes split you in half and even if all the pieces are there, they might not ever fit back together.”
― Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

“Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“It’s sad that sometimes we let ourselves believe that if it’s not bad, it must be good.” I carve out a corner of my memory for his words, because it’s a sentiment I don’t want to forget. It’s an idea that feels dangerous, because it makes me want more,”
― Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

“Music is nothing unless it fills your soul with colour and passion and dreams”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“You are worth more than a thousand perfect notes.”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“Chocolate is a substance worth existing for”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“If he were a piano, all his strings would have snapped”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“Beck closes his eyes. Forgets. Zones out so far he reaches the place deep inside where his own music lies. Little notes clamouring to be free. His own notes. His own creations. His fingers tap a tattoo against his other clammy palm. If people cut him open, they'd never accuse him of being empty. He's not a shell of a pianist - he's a composer. Cut his chest and see his heart beat with a song all his own.”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“He leaves the butterflies bleeding over their wings and descends back to the pits of volcanoes and terror. He plays like it's his last moment on earth. He plays so he feels like crying. And then it's done. Silence.”
― C.G. Drews, A Thousand Perfect Notes

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“It's the good things that hurt when you're missing them.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before