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  • #1
    Mark Helprin
    “That’s writing, huh. What does it do?” “It’s like talking, but it makes no sound.”
    Mark Helprin, A New York Winter's Tale

  • #2
    Mark Helprin
    “He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.”
    Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #4
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    John Green
    “it was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #6
    John Green
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #7
    Paolo Giordano
    “His scars were hidden and safe in her hand.”
    Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

  • #8
    Jon Krakauer
    “According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #9
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #10
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #11
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #12
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #13
    Books fall open, you fall in.
    “Books fall open, you fall in.”
    David T.W. McCord

  • #14
    Gautama Buddha
    “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • #15
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #16
    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    Robert Frost

  • #17
    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    Robert Frost

  • #18
    Robert Frost
    “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
    Robert Frost

  • #19
    Robert Frost
    “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
    Robert Frost

  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
    Robert Frost

  • #21
    Robert Frost
    “To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
    Robert Frost

  • #22
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #23
    Nicholas Sparks
    “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #24
    John Green
    “Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”
    John Green

  • #25
    Lauren Kate
    “What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?”
    Lauren Kate, Passion

  • #26
    David Nicholls
    “She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #27
    Gayle Forman
    “We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
    Gayle Forman, Just One Day

  • #28
    Ranata Suzuki
    “Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my life and love me with an intensity and a passion I had never experienced before. And to their credit they were right; It all came and went so fast it really did feel as if it were just ‘one day’....”
    Ranata Suzuki

  • #29
    David Nicholls
    “Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #30
    David Nicholls
    “But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”
    David Nicholls, One Day



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