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“For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

“Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love.”
― J.D. Robb

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Pity those who don't feel anything at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Never trust a duck.”
― Will Herondale

“I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, Of Noble Family

“A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

“I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars