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“Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on, pet.”
― Lauren Myracle

“JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!"

"Um," I said.

"We kissed," the Duke said.

"That's kinda gay," Keun said.

"I AM A GIRL."

"Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“All I'm saying is that if you love someone, you should be willing to show it.”
― Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.”
― Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows... but even taking that into account, Noah was pretty much perfect.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky."
"She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me.
"Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a phony because she’s a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can’t talk her out of it.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“The blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Never love a wild thing... you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up... . If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“If I do feel guilty, I guess it's because I let him go on dreaming when I wasn't dreaming a bit.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
― Marilyn Monroe