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    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love
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  • #3
    Colleen Hoover
    “You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, November 9
    tags: love, self-discovery
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    Colleen Hoover
    “She “loved me” in quotations She kissed me in bold I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps She left with an ellipsis . . .”
    ― Colleen Hoover, November 9
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  • #5
    Colleen Hoover
    “I may not remember anything about her, but I would bet her smile was my favorite part of her”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Never Never
    tags: silas-nash
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  • #6
    Colleen Hoover
    “Until then, never lose hope. Never stop loving me. Never forget. Never Never,”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Two
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  • #7
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
    tags: celaena-sardothien, chaol-westfall, crown-of-midnight
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  • #8
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Dance with me, Celaena," he said again, his voice rough. When her eyes met his she forgot about the cold, and the moon, and the glass palace looming above them. The secret library and the king's plans and Mort and Elena faded into nothing. She took his hand and there was only the music and Chaol.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
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  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “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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  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
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  • #12
    “Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
    No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
    tags: adam, ignite-me
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  • #13
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
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  • #14
    Sarah J. Maas
    “No matter what happens," she said quietly, "I want to thank you."
    Chaol tilted his head to the side. "For what?"
    Her eyes stung but she blamed it on the fierce wind and blinked away the dampness. "For making my freedom mean something.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: celaena-sardothien, chaol-westfall
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  • #15
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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  • #16
    Ruta Sepetys
    “I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: courage, life, pain, strength, suffering
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: fools, lies, pretending, pretense, truth
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said.
    Safer? He didn't realize.
    I was already dead.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
    tags: death, depression, ptsd, rape, salt-to-the-sea
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
    Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
    ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
    "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace
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  • #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
    tags: art, love
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  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: arrow, heart, inej, romance, suli-poverb
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  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #26
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No Mourners.
    No Funerals.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #27
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We are all someone's monster.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: matthias
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  • #28
    Patrick Ness
    “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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  • #29
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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  • #30
    Mackenzi Lee
    “God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
    ― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
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