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“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them.
She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.
She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he’s saying. Even when they tell him outright. But also, he doesn’t like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think—even when we don’t feel like thinking.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world.
And maybe,
just maybe,
he'd come back one day,
and burn that
fucking
palace
to the ground”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The universe was good because he was in it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Be a little kinder than you have to.
Never eat anything bigger than your ass
Do not accept an evil you can change
Always do what your afraid to do”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I’d a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I’ve been in for the past two years.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
― Oscar Wilde

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Irony is wasted on the stupid”
― Oscar Wilde