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“the world is a constant compromise, a greeting of the other and of yourself.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“I feel like I am drowning in memories. Everything is too bright.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“You like to act as if you care about nothing and if you carry on like that then you’re going to drown in the abyss you have imagined for yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that. So, congratulations on being free, I guess. The rest of us are still here, grappling with all that's been torn up.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“I think it's better to just read and not study books.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that’s really lonely. But that only happens when we weren’t really listening. It means we weren’t ready to listen yet. Because every time we speak, there is a voice. There is the world that answers back.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“It was a world full of feelings that I didn’t have words for yet.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“I think it's like when you lose something so close to you, it's like losing yourself.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“It's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That's a sad thing to learn.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“If she’d been a siren luring him to the bottom of the sea, he would have followed. If she’d been a gorgon he’d have let himself be turned into stone.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars