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  • #1
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #2
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #3
    Nicholas Sparks
    “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
    Nicholas Sparks

  • #4
    Nick Hornby
    “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
    Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

  • #5
    Markus Zusak
    “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    C. S. Lewis

  • #7
    Nicole Krauss
    “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #8
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #9
    John Green
    “I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #10
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Dry

  • #11
    Charles M. Schulz
    “This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #12
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

  • #13
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
    Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
    that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
    your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

  • #14
    Alice Sebold
    “Nothing is ever certain.”
    Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

  • #15
    Robert Goolrick
    “If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
    Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

  • #16
    Sara Evans
    “Even on my weakest days
    I get a little bit stronger”
    Sara Evans

  • #17
    Marie Lu
    “Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”
    Marie Lu, Legend

  • #18
    Nina LaCour
    “My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
    Nina LaCour, Hold Still

  • #19
    Kristan Higgins
    “You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.”
    Kristan Higgins, My One and Only

  • #20
    “A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.”
    Rachel Sontag, House Rules: A Memoir

  • #21
    Virginia Woolf
    “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
    Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

  • #22
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

  • #23
    John Irving
    “What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
    John Irving, The Cider House Rules

  • #24
    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    Confucius

  • #25
    “I can't set my hopes too high,
    'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.”
    Demi Lovato

  • #26
    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
    "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #27
    Rick Riordan
    “She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.
    "Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing.
    I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.”
    Rick Riordan

  • #28
    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

  • #30
    Brom
    “Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
    Brom, The Child Thief



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