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“If you're looking for Jesus
Then get on your knees”
― Jared Leto

“They still live. They breathe, they love each other, they find joy in the world around them for no other reason than because they are children. They are resilient. They will always rise above. Always. It is a curious facet of the innocent young.”
― Amelia Fisher

“What I needed was to love myself, to want to keep myself around.”
― Amelie Fisher

“Fear, Sadness. They're not weaknesses. They are overpowering, defining emotions. They make you human, Sophie.”
― Fisher Amelie, Vain

“I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.
THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF
OFF.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up.
Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.”
I was totally confused. “In the car?”
“In your life,” he said.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE POINT OF BEING SAD
WHEN I COULD CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“We
are Adam and Eve
born out of chaos called
creation
Ribbing me gave you life
yet you forget
there will always be
a part of me in you
yes
I taunted and tempted
you
with my forbidden fruit
does that make
me
the serpent too?
Believe what you will
but if I am exiled
alone
I know we will be
together again someday
naked
without shame
in paradise
My thanks to you
for being in on my
sin”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit?”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. ”
― Megan McCafferty

“I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Sometimes the bad guys don't win.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Almost Alice

“Everyone knows that books are better than life! That's why they're books!”
― Shainee Gabel

“How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“There's a girl, Dad."

He smiled a bit. "A girl."

"She kinda hates me, and I kinda..."

"Love her?"

"I don't know. I don't think so. I mean...how do you know?"

His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression.
"Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“I don't know myself. I don't know what I want or how I feel or how I should feeland I don't think I ever really have.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“You know, the world will always try to make you into who it wants you to be. People, time, events, they’ll all try to carve away at you and make you think you don’t know who you are. But it doesn’t matter who they try to make you, or what name they try to give you. If you stay true, you can chip off all their machinations and you’re still you underneath it all.”
― Samantha Young, Down London Road

“Life may not always go the way you'd planned, you may not have the perfect family, you may not be the most beautiful, but that doesn't mean you can't make the best of what you do have.”
― Madeline Sheehan, Unbeautifully

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

“It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they come out on the other side okay. Not only that, but they made some kind of twisted, fucked-up sense of the completely senseless. They made it mean something. These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it at that way, music... music can see you through anything.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

“Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.”
― Hannah Harrington, Speechless

“Assume nothing. Even if you think you know everything. Even if you’re sure that you’re right. Get confirmation.”
― Emma Chase

“I've never known my mother to be wrong. About anything. So at this moment, her opinion is my most valuable resource.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled