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  • #1
    Paula Hawkins
    “Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #2
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #3
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #4
    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #5
    Elie Wiesel
    “Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #6
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #7
    Hermann Hesse
    “Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
    Herman Hesse

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #9
    P.D. James
    “Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.”
    P.D. James, Innocent Blood

  • #10
    Billy Corgan
    “Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.”
    Billy Corgan

  • #11
    Scott Lynch
    “A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
    Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
    Stephen King, Joyland
    tags: past

  • #13
    Leah Raeder
    “If you’re trying to avoid loss, there’s no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends.”
    Leah Raeder, Unteachable

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “It was like when you had been unhappy and didn't know it until you weren't anymore.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

  • #16
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
    Guillaume Apollinaire

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
    Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.”
    Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

  • #18
    Libba Bray
    “How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked.

    Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”
    Libba Bray, The Diviners

  • #19
    Douglas Preston
    “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
    Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

  • #22
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief



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