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“Your eyes look like chocolate,” I mumbled.
He smiled. “And yours look like the morning sky.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
― Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft – The Unconventional Genius Who Founded Modern Feminism and Influenced Political Philosophy

“Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"Yes."
"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
"Yes."
"Have a biscuit, Potter.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

“But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel.”
― Monica Murphy, One Week Girlfriend

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
― Arthur Miller

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count. Everyone’s so busy waiting in the Waiting Place.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

“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

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children