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“No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“All I ever feel like doing is sleeping. I guess because it doesn't hurt as bad when you're asleep.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“You use to hang out with cool people" I say.
The right corner of her lips tilt up. "I used to hang out with you."
"That's what I just said”
― Katie McGarry, Dare You To

“But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“Right. You never know...but you usually do.”
― Ali Cronin, Rumour Has It

“There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

“People are not uniform Emaline. There is no such thing as any other girl. So stop holding yourself to some ridiculous high standard, would you please?”
― Sarah Dessen , The Moon and More

“And that's what's wrong with the world.." "Man, woman, straight, gay. There's nothing wrong with wanting someone. We're all adults.”
― Lindsey Kelk, About a Girl

“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

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know I am smart, I know I am kind and funny, and I know that everyone around me keeps telling me that I can be whatever I want to be. I know all this but I just don’t feel that way. I always feel like if I don’t look a certain way, if boys don’t think I’m ‘sexy’ or ‘hot’ then I’ve failed and it doesn’t even matter if I am a doctor or writer, I’ll still feel like nothing. I hate that I feel like that because it makes me seem shallow, but I know all of my friends feel like that, and even my little sister. I feel like successful women are only considered a success if they are successful AND hot, and I worry constantly that I won’t be. What if my boobs don’t grow, what if I don’t have the perfect body, what if my hips don’t widen and give me a little waist, if none of that happens I feel like what’s the point of doing anything because I’ll just be the ‘fat ugly girl’ regardless of whether I do become a doctor or not.
I wish people would think about what pressure they are putting on everyone, not just teenage girls, but even older people – I watch my mum tear herself apart every day because her boobs are sagging and her skin is wrinkling, she feels like she is ugly even though she is amazing, but then I feel like I can’t judge because I do the same to myself. I wish the people who had real power and control the images and messages we get fed all day actually thought about what they did for once.
I know the girls on page 3 are probably starving themselves. I know the girls in adverts are airbrushed. I know beauty is on the inside. But I still feel like I’m not good enough.”
― Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“Things don't always change with a bang. Sometimes they change so gradually that you can't clearly pinpoint the last moment they were truly the same.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, One Lonely Degree

“Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, I Know It's Over

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“He says it casually, dropping the suggestion like a piece of litter. I ponder it there, on the ground. Maybe it's worthless, maybe not. I won't know unless I pick it up.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“But the thing is, sharing hands doesn't mean sharing goals. Sharing eyes doesn't mean sharing visions. And sharing a heart doesn't mean sharing the things we love.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Easy to not think about other people's suffering, when it was hidden away. Harder to stomach when it collapsed on your front porch.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm