Jeruel Bert

“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

“Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“I could feel a million reasons, but there were no words to express them.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl