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"Life is one revelation after another.
Things don't always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it's all for the best that many things don't turn out the way we hoped."

"As long as you continue to say the words
'one day', the dream is not over. Maybe it will simply remain a beautiful dream. It may never come true. But that is one way to live, in my opinion. The days go by more happily when you have something to dream about. It's not always a bad thing to have a dream, with no plan for ever carrying it out."

"In a world where you don't know what will happen next, I just do what I can right now."

Finished "The Whitechapel Fiend" • 4/5 🌟

"Falling in love is really quite simple. You want to know the secret? It's the same thing we are all doing about life every single day. Forget there's an ending."

"People act like you can never forget your own name, but if you're not paying attention, you can veer so incredibly far away from everything you know about yourself to the point where you stop recognizing what they call you."

♥︎ "You are not the last dream of my soul.
You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime's worth." ♥︎

"I can tell you that the end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it, that whatever you think you have sworn, being here at the end is not what is important. It was being here for every other moment. Since you met him, you have never left him and never not loved him. That is what matters."

"Our hearts, they need a mirror. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there is a beauty that brevity alone provides."

"Is it disrespectful to the House to love some Statues more than others? I sometimes ask Myself this question. It is my belief that the House itself loves and blesses equally everything that it has created. Should I try to do the same? Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another."

"Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not be truly lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours."

♥︎ "When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand." ♥︎

"To look up at the nighttime sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history who looked above at that same set of stars. It is to witness time unfolding."

"I liked the Beatles when I was a young girl, hopelessly in love.... They explained it better than I could."

"But I think it is also the relief I feel that those stars are immovable. Nothing you or I could do will ever alter them. They are so much bigger than us. And they will not change within our lifetime. We can succeed or fail, get it right or get it wrong, love and lose the ones we love. And in that way, I know everything will be some type of okay—as impossible as that can seem sometimes."

"Something I strongly believe is that we mustn't allow the death of a person to be the cause of unhappiness. The reason for that is simple: if we let everyone who dies be a cause for unhappiness, that would mean people are being born to become unhappy. But the opposite in fact is true. People are always born for the sake of happiness."

"It didn't happen by magic! Your life didn't suddenly transform by itself, did it? None of your problems suddenly fixed themselves, did they? But you looked to the future and persevered. You have what you have today because you never gave up telling yourself that you had to be happy."

"Whatever you are physically male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy—all those things matter less than what your heart contains. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame."

"One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."

Finished "Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale" • 5/5 ⭐️

Finished "The Runaway Queen" • 3/5 ⭐️

Finished "What Really Happened in Peru" • 4/5 ⭐️

"They never said 'I love you' because they didn't need to. Their love existed in the space between words, in the moments when they were apart, before they came back together."

"Historically speaking, important truths often begin their lives as total impossibilities. And just because we can't imagine how something could possibly be true, doesn't mean we can't observe it to be true."

"Books are feelings. They exist to make us feel. To connect us to what's inside, sometimes to things we don't even know are there."

"Librarians and the booksellers ... Custodians of imagination, feeders of hungry hearts, matchmakers of the written word."

"I believe there are far more possibilities than happily ever after or tragedy. Every story has the potential for infinite endings."

"All stories are made of both truths and lies. What matters is the way that we believe in them."

"His brain was a radio that either switched channels frequently or remained set on the same one for far too long, regardless of what he wanted, and the frequency it chose wasn't always the frequency he was supposed to be tuned in to." ... Because same.

"And since it seems like every single 'naturally beautiful' thing about me comes with a downside that needs to be enhanced by store-bought beauty, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm really naturally beautiful at all, or if Mom's use of the term 'naturally beautiful' goes in the same place where others would just use the term 'ugly'."