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  • Sarah Dessen
    "It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."
    — Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)


  • Philip Pullman
    "I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them."
    — Philip Pullman


  • Theodore Roosevelt
    "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
    — Theodore Roosevelt


  • Jerry Spinelli
    "The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office."
    — Jerry Spinelli


  • Jerry Spinelli
    "She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing."
    — Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl)


  • Stephenie Meyer
    "Twilight again, he murmured." Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end."
    — Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)


  • Stephenie Meyer
    "Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
    I'd been broken beyond repair."
    — Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)


  • Donna Tartt
    "Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?"
    — Donna Tartt (The Secret History)


  • Abraham Lincoln
    "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
    — Abraham Lincoln


  • George Bernard Shaw
    "Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
    — George Bernard Shaw


  • "Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.
    Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.
    And it always feels good."
    — Lora Brody


  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
    — Eleanor Roosevelt


  • C.S. Lewis
    "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • Sarah Dessen
    "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
    — Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
    — Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)


  • Sarah Dessen
    "Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
    — Sarah Dessen


  • Dr. Seuss
    "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


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


  • André Gide
    "It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
    — André Gide


  • John Green
    "...you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened."
    — John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)


  • John Green
    "What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
    — John Green (Paper Towns)


  • John Green
    "And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: she felt empty. She felt the unscaleable wall surrounding her. I thought of her asleep on the carpet with only that jagged sliver of sky above her. Maybe Margo felt comfortable there because Margo the person lived like that all the time: in an abandoned room with blocked-out windows, the only light pouring in through holes in the roof. Yes. The fundamental mistake I had always made--and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make--was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl."
    — John Green (Paper Towns)


  • "It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.

    She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.
    "
    — E. Lockhart (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)


  • Philip Pullman
    "After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world"
    — Philip Pullman


  • Philip Pullman
    "We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
    — Philip Pullman


  • Philip Pullman
    "I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are."
    — Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)


  • Philip Pullman
    "I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight..."
    — Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass)


  • Philip Pullman
    "'No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much...'"
    — Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)


  • "She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever."
    — Philip Pullman, HIS DARK MATERIALS: THE AMBER SPYGLASS


  • Philip Pullman
    "All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions."
    — Philip Pullman


  • Philip Pullman
    "If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. "
    — Philip Pullman (Clockwork)


  • Haruki Murakami
    "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
    — Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)


  • C.S. Lewis
    "We read to know that we are not alone."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
    — C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)


  • Libba Bray
    "People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept."
    — Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)


  • Libba Bray
    ""I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.""
    — Libba Bray


  • Libba Bray
    "You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..

    "
    — Libba Bray


  • Libba Bray
    "Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right."
    — Libba Bray


  • Libba Bray
    ""Do you ever feel that way?"
    "Lonely?"
    I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt--'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it"
    He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have.
    "Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last.
    "What?"
    "Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another.'"
    — Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)


  • Libba Bray
    ""But...you could have whatever you wished."
    "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
    "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage."
    Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.
    "
    — Libba Bray


  • Libba Bray
    "You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet... "
    — Libba Bray


  • Libba Bray
    "They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.
    "
    — Libba Bray


  • Megan McCafferty
    "You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
    The same you who stopped us before we could start."
    — Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)


  • Megan McCafferty
    "My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie"
    — Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)


  • Megan McCafferty
    "And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently.

    I might even had said yes.

    Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?"
    — Megan McCafferty


  • Megan McCafferty
    ""You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.""
    — Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)


  • Elizabeth Scott
    "The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are."
    — Elizabeth Scott (Something, Maybe)


  • Elizabeth Scott
    ""You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.' --- Last line in "Bloom" by Elizabeth Scott"
    — Elizabeth Scott (Bloom)



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