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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #3
    “I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever.
    I am a whisper that never was.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #4
    “His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep"
    "Go to hell."
    He works his jaw. Walks to the door. "I'm working on it.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #5
    “You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. Please touch me, is what I want to tell him.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #6
    “I have a curse.
    I HAVE A GIFT.
    I'm a monster.
    I'M MORE THAN HUMAN.
    My touch Is lethal.
    MY TOUCH IS POWER.
    I am their weapon.
    I WILL FIGHT BACK.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #7
    “Why are you touching me?"

    "Because I can.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #8
    “You're absolutely delicious when you're angry." "Too bad my taste is poisonous for your palate.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #9
    “Aw, you trust me?"
    "As long as I have a clear shot." I tighten my hold on the gun in my hand.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #10
    “He smiles a small smile. His lips twitch like he's trying not to laugh. His eyes soften as they study my own. "There's very little I wouldn't do for you.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #11
    Marie Lu
    “What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.”
    Marie Lu, Legend

  • #12
    Marie Lu
    “Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”
    Marie Lu, Legend

  • #13
    Marie Lu
    “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
    Marie Lu, Legend

  • #14
    Marie Lu
    “You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?"
    June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.”
    Marie Lu, Legend

  • #15
    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #16
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.”
    Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    John Green
    “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

  • #19
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #20
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #21
    John Green
    “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #22
    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #23
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #24
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #25
    John Green
    “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #26
    John Green
    “Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars



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