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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "It's not good enough yet. You have to try harder," she said, her voice gentle. "You have to try hard at everything you do. That's all I ask." I rolled my eyes and revised it, and over time her approach wore off on me and I became like her too - wanting to do my best, expecting my best.”
― Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here

“I found myself within a forest dark,”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“People try to use your past against you not realizing you were using it to propel you.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks