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#1

“The night air slips into my lungs, and I feel like it is one of my first breaths.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: ch-9, four, tobias

#2

“Okay, I should probably mention right here that Brandon used the real word, but this is my story, so I'm cleaning it up a little.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle

tags: harper, humor, rebel-belle

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#3

“No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: end-times, harry-potter

966 likes

#4

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: romance, storytelling

3829 likes

#5

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

14477 likes

#6

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

tags: books, inspirational

2980 likes

#7

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

1509 likes

#8

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

12906 likes

#9

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

3623 likes

#10

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20723 likes

#11

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

1427 likes

#12

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

7946 likes

#13

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

5871 likes

#14

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39249 likes

#15

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: dream, first-sentence

2326 likes

#16

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

2463 likes

#17

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

tags: edward

3191 likes

#18

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

17209 likes

#19

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

4474 likes

#20

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

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47062 likes

#21

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27730 likes

#22

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

26907 likes

#23

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16493 likes

#24

“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: reading, simile

1290 likes

#25

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

1589 likes

#26

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: poetry, truth

1476 likes

#27

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101581 likes

#28

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

tags: faith, inspirational

1331 likes

#29

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age

2039 likes

#30

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

1815 likes

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