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“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“ "Hey, Sawyer?"
"Yeah? What’s up?" "
I love you, you know that?"
"I-…I do know that, actually. But- Jesus, Reena.” He laughs a bit, disbelieving. “It’s nice to hear.”
It’s nice to say, I want to tell him, then realize I’ve got a whole country to say it. I’ve got a whole continent. I’ve got the whole world.”
― Katie Cotugno, How to Love

“It occurs to me, not for the first time, that things change whether you're around to notice them or not.”
― Katie Cotugno, How to Love

“Nothing about you, my dear, has ever been lost on me.”
― Katie Cotugno, How to Love

“I loved ... the honest soul he kept hidden safe under all his bravado, and I loved how I was still, every day, learning him.”
― Katie Cotugno, How to Love

“I like him so stupidly much.”
― Katie Cotugno, How to Love

“...somehow this seems inevitable, the natural course of things. Maybe he's a homing pigeon. Maybe I'm his home.”
― Katie Cotugno, How to Love

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
― Katie Cotugno, How to Love

“My whole life feels undeclared.”
― Katie Cotugno

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“That was the best part, the dreaming. She dreamed of wolves most every night. A great pack of wolves, with her at the head. She was bigger than any of them, stronger, swifter, faster. She could outrun horses and outfight lions. When she bared her teeth even men would run from her, her belly was never empty long, and her fur kept her warm even when the wind was blowing cold. And her brothers and sisters were with her, many and more of them, fierce and terrible and hers. They would never leave her.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“We live and breathe words.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“The older you are, the harder it is to accept that the world might not be the way you thought it was.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost—when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change? How long could you keep trying to save them, and when did you give up and grieve for them as though they were dead?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I figured something out. You can't hold onto hate forever. It won't do a thing to the person you hate, but it'll poison you, sure enough.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight