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“Maybe tears were something you caught. Like the flu.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can't hide from the people who changed your diapers.”
― Lisa Unger, In the Blood

“As parents, we must accept that our children are who they are. We can’t make them into something we want, or be disappointed in them because they don’t meet our artificial expectations.”
― Lisa Unger, In the Blood

“Every couple starts off loving each other, don't they? It's how a relationship ends that really defines its nature.”
― Lisa Unger, In the Blood

“Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”
― Simon Van Booy

“He dreamed of her hand tangling in his, a pulse of power twining them together. He dreamed of them racing through foreign streets, not the London ones they’d navigated, but crooks and bends in places he’d never been, and ones he might never see. But there she was, at his side, pulling him toward freedom.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Some people can see things with their hearts. Others need to see them with their eyes.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“Tell me something wonderful- a story that's startling and marvelous.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“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

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You like to act as if you care about nothing and if you carry on like that then you’re going to drown in the abyss you have imagined for yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“As far as I'm concerned, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.”
― John Kennedy Toole

“It's better this way, sister. There's more to life than staying safe...”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Captain,” she murmured.
“I think I’m in love with you.”
An eyebrow shot up. She counted six beats of his heart before, suddenly, he laughed.
“Don’t tell me it took you two whole days to realize that. I must be losing my touch.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“Ten different questions popped into his mind. He forgot them all when Aria smiled and said, "You look handsome.”
― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

“I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand