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“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“what is love..??
it is "A THING BEYOND FOREVER”
― Novoneel Chakraborty

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

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

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“The human heart will never wrinkle.”
― Madame de Sévigné, Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

“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

“I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member”
― Sigmund Freud, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious/The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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

“In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings. First step is to identify the shit.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Year I Met You

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“When you don't have a next place to go, time slows down enormously.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Year I Met You

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
― George Carlin

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

“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

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
― Sarah Kay