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#1

“Tess, Tess, Tessa.

Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it – a heart ringing – but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

Why have I written these words in this book? Because of you. You taught me to love this book where I had scorned it. When I read it for the second time, with an open mind and heart, I felt the most complete despair and envy of Sydney Carton. Yes, Sydney, for even if he had no hope that the woman he loved would love him, at least he could tell her of his love. At least he could do something to prove his passion, even if that thing was to die.

I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.

And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart.

You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.

With hope at least,
Will Herondale”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: cassandra-clare, clockwork-prince, tessa-gray, will-herondale, will-s-letter-to-tessa

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#2

“I love you Layla. Do you hear me? I've loved you since the first moment I heard your voice and I will continue to love you. No matter what. I love you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Stone Cold Touch

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#3

“So you keep your ocean, I'll take the Lake.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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#4

“I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

tags: books, reading, reading-books

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#5

“Aw, did you just fall?"
"No." I rolled onto my back, wincing. "I attacked the floor.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure

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#6

“I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

tags: books, boys, katy, onyx

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#7

“You know what?” His breath was warm against my cheek. “There are a lot of stupid things to do, but I really want to do the stupidest thing possible.”

“What’s that?”

“I want to kiss you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure

tags: alex, pure, seth

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#8

“It’s just words and words mean nothing. Only action does.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood

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#9

“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: clockwork-angel, will-herondale, william-herondale

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#10

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

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#11

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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#12

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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#13

“Love is a strange creature one thinks one has a grasp on and understanding of, only to discover later that it was only the barest taste of the real thing.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Stone Cold Touch

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#14

“Apollo had said he knew what this kind of love was capable of. And I finally understood why Paris had risked his country and his blood for Helen. Selfish, yes, but I understood. I would burn the world if that meant Alex would be safe.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Elixir

tags: aiden-st-delphi

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#15

“Hearts don't really break. If only they could.”
― Stephen King, 22/11/63

tags: life, love

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#16

“If you don’t show up today, I’ll be there next year. And the next. Every November 9th I’ll wait for you, hoping one day you’ll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again. But if that doesn’t happen and you never show, I’ll still be grateful to you until the day that I die. You saved me the day we met.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

tags: ben, fallon

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#17

“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

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#18

“Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn't exist.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

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#19

“I'm scared of everything,” I admitted, Voice hushed. “ everything. My biggest fear is forever that I'll be like this forever.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

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#20

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#21

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#22

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#23

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#24

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King

tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

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#25

“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: will-herondale

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#26

“The bad things can't matter more than the good things”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

tags: cristina-rosales, lord-of-shadows, shadowhunters

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#27

“I am grateful you're alive", he said. "I am grateful that you're beside me. I am grateful that you're eating."
She rested her head on his shoulder.
"You're better that waffles, Matthias Helvar."
A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips.
"Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

tags: crooked-kingdom, matthias-helvar, nina-zenik, six-of-crows

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