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“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“To answer your question, you want me because I'm made of awesome.”
― Gena Showalter, Heart of Darkness

“People are the most difficult thing in the world to change”
― Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth

“There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.”
― Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth

“There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.”
― Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“But when I touch you, your aura … it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?” He used that hand to pull me closer. “Why do you react that way if I don’t mean anything to you?” There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

“Our time together feels like a storm, like wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. It blows around me and tangles my hair, leaves water on my face, makes me know that I am alive, alive, alive. There are moments of calm and pause as there are in every storm, and moments when our words fork lightening, at least for each other.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
― Cathy Guiswite

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
― Cassandra Clare

“There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.”
― Gerard Way

“Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others. I know it's been told hundreds of times before, but it's true. Hey, girls, you are beautiful.”
― Gerard Way

“If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”
― Gerard Way

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
― gerard way

“If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.”
― Gerard Way

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker