“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. You have to have a crush on the exact right person at the exact right moment. And they have to like you back. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. It’s almost unfathomable that it happens as often as it does.”
― The Upside of Unrequited
― The Upside of Unrequited
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“You know, the less you talk, the more people assume that what you’re not saying is important.”
― Off to Be the Wizard
― Off to Be the Wizard
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they're dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think 'not bad, they're okay', and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it, and they just they turn into something so beautiful...”
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The YA Book Club
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This is a book club for all those who love Young Adult books. We know you love to read, and so do we. We will have optional group reads each month. If ...more
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