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“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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

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

“I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“As a wise Pug once said, all you need is love, kibble and a de-worming tablet every three to six months.”
― Gemma Correll, A Pug's Guide to Dating

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“In her novel In Times of Siege, Githa Hariharan quotes a German Pastor, Reverend Martin Niemöller, who was persecuted by the Nazis: ‘In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew. ‘Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up because I was not a trade unionist. ‘Then they came for the homosexuals, and I did not speak up because I was not a homosexual. ‘Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak up because I was Protestant. ‘Then they came for me . . . but by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
― Khushwant Singh, The End Of India

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

“Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Professionals stick to the schedule;
amateurs let life get in the way.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

“never miss twice.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“If there was wisdom in beards, all goats would be prophets.”
― Armenian Proverb

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe