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  • #1
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #2
    Ann Brashares
    “Remind me, she needed to ask. I don't seem to know how to be.”
    Ann Brashares

  • #3
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #4
    Ann Brashares
    “She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?”
    Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

  • #5
    Eric Nuzum
    “If there is one thing I'd learned about hospitals, it's that they aren't interested in healing you. They are interested in stabilizing you, and then everyone is supposed to move on. They go to stabilize some more people, and you go off to do whatever you do. Healing, if it happens at all, is done on your own, long after the hospital has submitted your final insurance paperwork.”
    Eric Nuzum, Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted

  • #6
    Irwin Shaw
    “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

  • #7
    J.M. Barrie
    “Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #10
    I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
    “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #11
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #12
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #13
    John Green
    “And he thought of Katherine XIV, who wore a black bra and also a black everything else.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: black

  • #14
    J.D. Salinger
    “I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #15
    Stephanie Perkins
    “Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #16
    Veronica Roth
    “I will not be molded and shaped”
    Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Collection

  • #17
    John Green
    “Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #18
    John Green
    “She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #19
    Richelle Mead
    “Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.”
    Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

  • #20
    Richelle Mead
    “What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.”
    Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

  • #21
    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    Henry James

  • #22
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #23
    Ally Carter
    “But the woman smiles, unable to hear the things I don't say.”
    Ally Carter, Before the Fall: Arrival

  • #24
    Ally Carter
    “For the first time he's not looking at me like I'm dangerous. He's looking at me like I'm broken. It's a look I know too well.”
    Ally Carter, Before the Fall: Arrival

  • #25
    Ann Brashares
    “When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”
    Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
    tags: life

  • #26
    Ann Brashares
    “She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.”
    Ann Brashares

  • #27
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #28
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring



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