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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.”
― Chris Lynch, Angry Young Man

“The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.”
― Chris Lynch, Angry Young Man

“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

“The six rules of maybe
1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it.
2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go.
3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way
4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others
5. Persist, if necessary
6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

“You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

“Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.”
― Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket

“...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

“Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

“…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.”
― Kathleen Winter, Annabel

“Sometimes I feel hunted by my grief. It circles me, stalks me. It's always in my periphery. Sometimes I can fake it out. Sometimes I make myself go so still, it can't sense that I'm there anymore and it goes away. I do that right now.”
― Courtney Summers, Fall for Anything

“Why. Why. Why. WHY.
The question my life had become.”
― Courtney Summers, Fall for Anything

“You know," she says. "You're still alive. I don't know how many different ways I can try to tell you before it finally sinks in.”
― Courtney Summers, Fall for Anything

“Don’t worry about wanting to change; start worrying when you don’t feel like changing anymore. And in the meantime, enjoy every version of yourself you ever meet, because not everybody who discovers their true identity likes what they find.”
― Antony John, Five Flavors of Dumb

“The world news might not be therapeutic.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63