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

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

"So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"Looking back on better days, keep finding pieces of myself in yesterday, looking for another way to break apart the sea of mediocrity."
— David Cook

""If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.""
— John Green (Paper Towns)

""But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."

I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

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

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

"The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala)

"all endings are also beginnings,
we just dont know that at the time"
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

"We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

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

"It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

"Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

"Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?"
— Melina Marchetta (On The Jellicoe Road)

"My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and let it take me. But I know sooner or later I will have to get out, that I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes - the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life."
— Melina Marchetta (On The Jellicoe Road)

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
— Oscar Wilde

"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)

"The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?"
— Henrik Johan Ibsen (An Enemy of the People)

"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"
— John Lennon

"Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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

"If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless."
— John Green

""It's not because I want to make out with her."
"Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
— Harriet Tubman

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
— Saul Bellow

"There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings."
— Wendell Berry

"You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

"'We could do it, you know'
'What?'
'Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.' "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

"I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!"
— Beatrice Sparks (Go Ask Alice)

"There is not a name for what I'm feeling. There is no description for it.
To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.
Whatever this thing is, it shoves you inside itself and you can't measure its boundaries because they go too far and you don't have enough time. Or you move toward the boundaries and they move away.
There has been an earthquake in my life.
Catastrophic, civilization-ending."
— R.A. Nelson (Teach Me)

"This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go."
— R.A. Nelson (Teach Me)

"The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

""How does it feel, anyway?"
"How does what feel?"
"When you take one of those books?"
At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. "Well?" he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth.
"It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back.""
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

"Forever is composed of nows."
— Emily Dickinson

"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)