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  • #1
    Rainbow Rowell
    “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

  • #2
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

  • #3
    Meg Rosoff
    “Things Happen and once they start
    happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life
    and see where they drop you when they stop.”
    Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
    tags: life

  • #4
    Meg Rosoff
    “I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”
    Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

  • #5
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #6
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #7
    D.H. Lawrence
    “We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #8
    D.H. Lawrence
    “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
    D.H. Lawrence

  • #9
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #10
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby



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