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“SEE THIS SCREAM-IT'S FOR YOU, SEE THIS HURT-IT'S BY YOU, SEE THIS MARK-IT'S FROM YOU”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

“I’ve always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got to be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.”
― Wil Wheaton

“Things every person should have:

•A nemesis.
•An evil twin.
•A secret headquarters.
•An escape hatch.
•A partner in crime.
•A secret identity.”
― Wil Wheaton

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”
― Jim Harrison

“...slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

“I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers