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  • #1
    John Green
    “She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #2
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #3
    Ismail Kadare
    “It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
    Ismail Kadare, Broken April

  • #4
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    John Green
    “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #6
    John Green
    “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #7
    John Green
    “I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #8
    John Green
    “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #9
    John Green
    “At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #10
    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    François Rabelais

  • #11
    John Green
    “Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #12
    John Green
    “After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #13
    John Green
    “I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #14
    Katja Millay
    “Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until after dinner”
    Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

  • #15
    Katja Millay
    “There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.”
    Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

  • #16
    Katja Millay
    “I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.”
    Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

  • #17
    Katja Millay
    “People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”
    Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

  • #18
    Katja Millay
    “I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck.”
    Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

  • #19
    Katja Millay
    “We're like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain each other. Maybe that's what I need. Someone to explain me.”
    Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

  • #20
    Katja Millay
    “Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.”
    Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

  • #21
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #22
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #24
    Warsan Shire
    “Your daughter is ugly.
    She knows loss intimately,
    carries whole cities in her belly.

    As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her.
    She was splintered wood and sea water.
    They said she reminded them of the war.

    On her fifteenth birthday you taught her
    how to tie her hair like rope
    and smoke it over burning frankincense.

    You made her gargle rosewater
    and while she coughed, said
    macaanto girls like you shouldn’t smell
    of lonely or empty.

    You are her mother.
    Why did you not warn her,
    hold her like a rotting boat
    and tell her that men will not love her
    if she is covered in continents,
    if her teeth are small colonies,
    if her stomach is an island
    if her thighs are borders?

    What man wants to lay down
    and watch the world burn
    in his bedroom?

    Your daughter’s face is a small riot,
    her hands are a civil war,
    a refugee camp behind each ear,
    a body littered with ugly things

    but God,
    doesn’t she wear
    the world well.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #25
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words, hollow words, sometimes meaningless words.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

  • #26
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #27
    Erin Morgenstern
    “People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #28
    Erin Morgenstern
    “Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #29
    Erin Morgenstern
    “But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #30
    Sabaa Tahir
    “Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
    Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes



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