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"sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red."
— Zoe Trope (Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir)

tags: words
6 people liked it

"I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at all just doesn't make sense."
— Zoe Trope

tags: beautiful
3 people liked it

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. "
— Augusten Burroughs (Magical Thinking: True Stories)

463 people liked it

"My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way."
— Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors: A Memoir)

48 people liked it

"We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover."
— Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors)

31 people liked it

"Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it."
— David Sedaris

tags: humor, perception, retardation
416 people liked it

"If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve."
— David Sedaris

tags: journals-diaries, justice
50 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,190 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,964 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,390 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,291 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,896 people liked it

"Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: comics
76 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,775 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,859 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,170 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare
459 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

842 people liked it

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

383 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
692 people liked it

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
— William Shakespeare

tags: comedy, elizabethan, goodfellow, robin
258 people liked it

"Beware the ides of March."
— William Shakespeare

tags: julius-ceasar, play
22 people liked it

"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. "
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)

tags: much-ado-about-nothing, shakespeare
46 people liked it

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: love
341 people liked it

"You see, freedom has a way of destroying things."
— Scott Westerfeld (Extras)

tags: destruction, freedom
164 people liked it

"Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart."
— Scott Westerfeld (So Yesterday)

51 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,452 people liked it

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: infinity
355 people liked it

""t's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.""
— Stephen Chbosky

75 people liked it

"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

133 people liked it

"I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: growing, life, up
99 people liked it

"Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

69 people liked it

"I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

127 people liked it

"It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

61 people liked it

"Besides, I always feel safer when I've got words against my heart."
— Zoe Trope (Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir)

tags: words
2 people liked it

"if you take off your clothes, you will find more clothes."
— Zoe Trope (Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir)

4 people liked it

"apathy is a disease and some days i long for it."
— Zoe Trope (Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir)

7 people liked it

""You've got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be." "
— Janet Fitch

65 people liked it

"In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

tags: scars, white-oleander
34 people liked it

"“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”"
— Janet Fitch

24 people liked it

"Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

24 people liked it

"I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

tags: white-oleander
6 people liked it

"I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

15 people liked it

"‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide."
— Rachel Cohn (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist)

87 people liked it

"But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted. "
— Rachel Cohn (Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List)

11 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,514 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,370 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,141 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,903 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,681 people liked it

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