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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Romance goes like this:
Boy gets girl.
Boy loses girl.
Boy gets girl again.
The end.
It can't be any other way.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, Anything But Typical

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“—If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us, he said, then there wouldn’t be so much fuss about love in the first place.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Life may not be fair, but when you have someone to believe in, life can be managed, and sometimes, even miraculous.”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land

“(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

“bought me another snow cone, and, as he gave it to me, planted a diamond ring on top. “A piece of ice that I’m hoping will make you melt,” he said.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“I’ve told you before, life’s not about doing what you want.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“mean, at some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you’ll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. As I ran, I felt myself for the first time”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“you choose the strings, then you’re imagining a world in which you can become irreparably broken. If you choose the grass, you’re saying that we are all infinitely interconnected, that we can use these root systems not only to understand one another but to become one another. The metaphors have implications. Do you know what I mean?”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“Because she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn’t hold you close, or tell you all the time that you were the best thing ever, or even notice when you were home: a little part of you sealed over. You didn’t need”
― Jojo Moyes, One Plus One

“She seemed to bounce through life like Tigger;”
― Jojo Moyes, One Plus One

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“If you love someone enough, you should be able to overcome anything,”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I may live like an empress, but I’ve never asked an emperor to pick up the bill.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post