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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    André Aciman
    “If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: coming-of-age, gay-romance, italy, lost, love
    323 likes

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  • #4
    Margaret Atwood
    “Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
    tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self
    494 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
    21622 likes

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  • #7
    Daniel Handler
    “I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.”
    ― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up
    427 likes

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  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Jonathan Tropper
    “Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.”
    ― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
    26196 likes

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  • #11
    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #12
    Lewis Carroll
    “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
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  • #13
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: love
    11875 likes

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    Jodi Picoult
    “All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
    ― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
    tags: life, love, meaning
    373 likes

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  • #15
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: change, life
    20964 likes

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    John Green
    “I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
    ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
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    Jodi Picoult
    “I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: dating, julia-romano, love, unrequited
    1829 likes

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    Wendelin Van Draanen
    “You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”
    ― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
    tags: grandpa-chet, inspirational, prejudice, wisdom
    251 likes

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    Stephen Chbosky
    “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: happiness
    11982 likes

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    Jodi Picoult
    “Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Pact
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    Tim Tharp
    “We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We’re the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we’ve crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what’s up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn’t have any letup in him.”
    ― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
    tags: generation, graduating, graduation, growing-up, prom
    82 likes

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  • #22
    Ali Benjamin
    “And that made me realize this: Everyone’s story is different, all the time. No one is ever really together, even if it looks for a while like they”
    ― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish
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  • #23
    Gayle Forman
    “I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.”
    ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
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    Gayle Forman
    “But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
    ― Gayle Forman , Where She Went
    tags: inspirational, where-she-went
    791 likes

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  • #25
    Jay Asher
    “In the end....everything matters.”
    ― Jay Asher
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    2423 likes

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  • #27
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
    18081 likes

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  • #28
    Jay Asher
    “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
    tags: care, impact, life, reach-out, think
    3405 likes

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  • #29
    Jodi Picoult
    “Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
    tags: superheroes
    202 likes

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  • #30
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
    24002 likes



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