Quotes - ✨lee✨ (chaoticinkstain) Showing 1-30 of 42

#1

“Our hearts were broken in the same places. That's something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#2

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12709 likes

#3

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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#4

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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#5

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

tags: inspirational

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#6

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#7

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

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#8

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

3623 likes

#9

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#10

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: insults, shakespeare

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#11

“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: death, love, shakespeare

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#12

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

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#13

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#14

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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#15

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

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#16

“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
― Sappho

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#17

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27745 likes

#18

“I see," he said, though, clearly, he did not.”
― Andy Andrews, The Young Traveler's Gift

tags: i-thought-this-was-funny

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#19

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#20

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#21

“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: scars

677 likes

#22

“A God worthy of your eternal love wouldn’t judge you for who you love while you’re here.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

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#23

“My brain is such a traitorous beast.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

tags: first-love, heartbreak, lgbtq, lgbtqia, teen, ya, young-adult

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#24

“Reasons why I should be your new grandma:
One - I’m great at making cookies
Two - I’m extremely wise
Three - if I had any money, I’d give you some”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

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#25