“Books are feelings,” he replied simply. “They exist to make us feel. To connect us to what’s inside, sometimes to things we don’t even know are there. It only makes sense that some of what we feel when we’re reading would . . . rub off.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“people don’t always give you what you want. They give you what they have to give. But if you stop and think about it, that can be enough.”
― Things I Wish I Told My Mother
― Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“The kind of ending where someone else sees the best and worst of me and loves me back. We’d be happy together, we’d be sad together, we’d be everything together. And when it’s all over and we’ve reached another ending, my ashes would be scattered over the tree that grows from his body because till death do us part wouldn’t be enough, because I’d need more than one brief eternity with him.”
― How to End a Love Story
― How to End a Love Story
“There doesn’t need to be a winner and a loser. You just have to care how the other person feels. You have to care more about them than you do about being right.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“You make every single thing that went wrong feel like it was just a step in the right direction, and it—it makes me excited. For life to keep surprising me.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
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