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“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“This isn't about Adam or Warner," I tell him, "This is about me and what I want. This is about me finally understanding where I want to be in ten years. Because I'm going to be alive, Kenji. I will be alive in ten years, and I'm going to be happy. I'm going to be strong. And I don't need anyone to tell me that anymore. I am enough, and I always will be.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”
― Sarah Dessen

“She has no idea. The effect she can have.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I wish for the thing that is best for me.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“You get close to people. You get farther from them. You learn how much you love them, and then you say good-bye, believing that you will be together again, someday, when your lives curve back into one another's.”
― Nina LaCour, The Disenchantments

“I think it's the bravest thing in the world...to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt.”
― Emery Lord, Open Road Summer

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm trying to create good things in the midst of the bad. Grief or no grief. And in my case, it's still somewhere in between.”
― Emery Lord, When We Collided