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    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: crying, laughter, options
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    Veronica Roth
    “Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: grief, guilt
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    John Boyne
    “Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? ”
    ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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    John Boyne
    “He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly.
    "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”
    ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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    Neal Shusterman
    “I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: ambition, failure, irony, optimism
    862 likes

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    James Dashner
    “You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.”
    ― James Dashner, The Maze Runner
    tags: work-ethic
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    Ransom Riggs
    “When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    “You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.”
    ― Andrew Smith
    tags: winger
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    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    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
    tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege
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    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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    John Green
    “It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Veronica Roth
    “I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: four, heartbreaking, tobias
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    Veronica Roth
    “I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: fear, love, power, powerful
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    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: paper-towns
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    E. Lockhart
    “There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    E. Lockhart
    “Do not accept an evil you can change.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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    E. Lockhart
    “Be a little kinder than you have to.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
    tags: kindness, motto
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    E. Lockhart
    “The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
    ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
    tags: universe
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Extras
    tags: destruction, freedom
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, The Uglies Trilogy
    tags: appreciation, beauty, tally
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    Douglas Adams
    “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: atheism, religion, skeptic
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    Douglas Adams
    “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: egotism, zaphod-beeblebrox
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    Douglas Adams
    “Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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