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  • #1
    John Green
    “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

  • #2
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Suzanne Collins
    “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #6
    Suzanne Collins
    “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    Douglas Adams

  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #9
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #11
    David Levithan
    “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
    David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #12
    That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent
    “That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”
    David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • #13
    “So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.”
    Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

  • #14
    “Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks;
    One burnt her daddy up and then there were six.
    Six little crazy kids playing with a hive;
    One tattooed himself to death and then there were five.
    Five little crazy kids on a cellar door;
    One went all schizo and then there were four.
    Four little crazy kids going out to sea;
    One wouldn't say a word and then there were three.
    Three little crazy kids walking to the zoo;
    One jerked himself too much and then there were two.
    Two little crazy kids sitting in the sun;
    One a took a bunch of pills and then there was one.
    One little crazy kid left all alone;
    He went and slit his wrists, and then there were none.”
    Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

  • #15
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
    Ford: We're safe.
    Arthur: Oh good.
    Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
    Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #23
    Rainbow Rowell
    “There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #24
    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #29
    Rainbow Rowell
    “It’s just... everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn't matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

  • #30
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
    “It sets a dangerous precedent.”
    “For avoiding pain?”
    “For avoiding life.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl



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