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  • #1
    Becky Albertalli
    “But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”
    Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #3
    T.J. Klune
    “We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #4
    T.J. Klune
    “Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #5
    T.J. Klune
    “Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #6
    T.J. Klune
    “You’re too precious to put into words. I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #7
    T.J. Klune
    “Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #8
    T.J. Klune
    “Your voice is a weapon. Never forget that.”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #9
    T.J. Klune
    “People suck, but sometimes, they should just drown in their own suckage without our help.”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #10
    T.J. Klune
    “He couldn't believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #11
    T.J. Klune
    “Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?”
    T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

  • #12
    Donna Tartt
    “It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #13
    Donna Tartt
    “There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #14
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.”
    Alexander McCall Smith, The Right Attitude to Rain

  • #15
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.”
    Alexander McCall Smith, The Right Attitude to Rain

  • #16
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “There was nothing more unattractive than narcissism, she thought: nothing could transform beauty into a cloying, unattractive quality than that self-conscious appreciation of self.”
    Alexander McCall Smith, The Right Attitude to Rain

  • #17
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “The whole culture of work had become so intrusive and demanding that people had to do it. And the result was that they were left with little time for simply living their lives, for going for a walk, for sitting in a bar, for reading a book. It was all work.”
    Alexander McCall Smith, The Right Attitude to Rain

  • #18
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #19
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #20
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
    The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
    "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #21
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #22
    Ryszard Kapuściński
    “A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.”
    Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus

  • #23
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #24
    Markus Zusak
    “Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #25
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #26
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: hate

  • #27
    Haruki Murakami
    “This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a
    long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #28
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #29
    Haruki Murakami
    “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #30
    Ruta Sepetys
    “Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea



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