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“It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“Sometimes it feels like the world is unimaginably big, and other times it feels like you could hold it in your hand.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“I’ve always loved that about reading. Being able to experience a different time or place, but mostly getting a chance to experience being a different person altogether.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“One who’s braver, who knows what she wants and reaches for it without apology, or one who doesn’t have regrets. How different would my life have been if I’d been a different sort of person?”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“What would I have done differently if he’d told me he thought he was going to die? Would I have kissed him, or held him, or thanked him for the years he gave me?”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“I should never have married him. I am on my own.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“Sometimes I cry, both for the loss of him and for the loss of all those years. For the life I didn’t live. All the lives I didn’t live. We only get to choose one, after all.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“We don’t know we’re born, do we?”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“The price of living a long life, I think, is the sheer weight of the losses you have to suffer. You carry each loved one you lose, and they stack up, and it becomes unbearable. I tick them off in my mind. Brother, father, mother, husband, and my friend, my love.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“I think we’re all grieving for something. Our childhoods or a relationship or a dream.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“We all have something that’s broken us, I suppose. Nobody gets away unscathed”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“There is nothing quite so alive as a book that has been well loved.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“There’s nothing more personal than a book, especially one that’s become an important part of someone’s life.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“Books are feelings,”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“Without a reader, a book was a blank slate, an object with no breath or pulse of its own. But once a book became part of someone’s world, it came to life, with a past and a present—and, if properly cared for, a future.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“Books were safe. They had plots that followed predictable patterns, beginnings, middles, and endings. Usually happy, though not always. But if something tragic happened in a book, you could just close it and choose a new one, unlike real life, where events often played out without the protagonist’s consent.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“You’re a thread I don’t dare pull. Not because I’m afraid you won’t survive the unraveling but because I’m certain—even in this early moment—that I won’t.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“We read not to escape life but to learn how to live it more deeply and richly, to experience the world through the eyes of the other.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“He said all truly good writing—fiction or nonfiction—has a heartbeat, a life force that comes from the writer, like an invisible cord connecting them to the reader. Without it, the work is dead on arrival.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“You’re the answer to a prayer I never thought to pray—and a threat to all my plans—but I’m not strong enough to walk away. I want you. In whatever way it’s possible to have you, for however long it’s possible to have you. Knowing it’s a mistake, knowing it solves nothing. Knowing that one day we will stand here again, on the brink of goodbye.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“They participate more in the political life of their nations, have greater protections from discrimination and repression, and receive a greater percentage of state resources. They are also happier, wealthier, better educated, and generally have a higher life expectancy than people who live in dictatorships.”
― Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

“It turns out that one of the best predictors of whether a country will experience a civil war is whether it is moving toward or away from democracy.”
― Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

“In the shift away from autocracy, formerly disenfranchised citizens come into new power, while those who once held privileges find themselves losing influence.”
― Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

“Kronenberg went quietly Nazi, and so it was.”
― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

“OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kipling: Poems