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“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“We hold on to each other so tightly under the sad, starless sky that for a moment I feel as if our heartbreak were one instead of two.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me (Found on the back of a French quiz in a planter, Clover High)”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The things that hurt you, change you. And they can either make you better or make you worse.”
― Robin Roe, Dark Room Etiquette

“I think your mind can stay trapped even when your body is free.”
― Robin Roe, Dark Room Etiquette

“It feels like God has a language—one I could learn if I keep trying.”
― Robin Roe, Dark Room Etiquette