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#1

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

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#2

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

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#3

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

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#4

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

tags: be-brave, embrace-change, love, take-the-risk

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#5

“It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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#6

“Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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#7

“She kisses my scars and I create new ones for her.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

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#8

“Some stories aren't black and white.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

tags: livvie

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#9

“Love does not always begin or end the way we wish it would.”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

tags: love

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#10

“Some men don't eat pussy. I think those men are pussies.”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

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#11

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: idealizations, love

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#12

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: love

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#13

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: fuck-off

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#14

“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: happiness, love, relationship

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#15

“All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#16

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#17

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#18

“See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#19

“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#20

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#21

“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

tags: daylight

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#22

“I know at that moment what he's given me and it isn't a chair. It's an invitation, a welcome, the knowledge that I am accepted here. He hasn't given me a place to sit. He's given me a place to belong.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

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#23

“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

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#24

“Good morning, Sunshine.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

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#25

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: attraction, beauty, popularity

7931 likes

#26

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#27

“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#28

“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: understanding-oneself-and-others

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#29