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“I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.”
― Alice Hoffman, Green Angel

“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry?" I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd never have asked of Hugh.

"I don't know," said Michael. "Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“Love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“And then I'm thinking - is it so impossible to imagine or believe? - that a man and a woman can find happiness together for a little while, which afterall, is all that we have. All anyone has.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“So this is how "happy" feels, I thought. The energy, the automatic smile. This is what it's like to look forward to the day, to believe there could be good things coming.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“He felt nervous and excited an happy and kind of filled with dread, all at the same time. It was the most emotion he'd never experienced...”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“At that instant, I knew exactly what I wanted out of life: this. This feeling, this happiness, this embrace.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“The secret of imaginary friends. Children have imaginary friends to help guide them into their lives. We help children feel less alone, help them find their place in the world, in their families. But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just... how it works.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

“There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“We’re agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don’t know if there’s a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don’t.”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“She felt strong and blissfully empty gliding through the crisp November air, enjoying the intermittent warmth of the sun as it filtered down through the overhanging trees, which were mostly stripped of their foliage. It was that trashy, post-Halloween part of the fall, yellow and orange leaves littering the ground”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“When your words are futile, you’re better off keeping them to yourself, or never even thinking them in the first place.”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers