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“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?”
― Keith Richards, Life

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

“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“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

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.”
― Bill Hicks

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
― Bill Hicks

“Looks like a maze,” Thomas whispered,”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn't take up more than its fair share of space inside a man.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“We're not courting trouble," I say. "Flirting with it, at most.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Ugh. Feelings.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“It occurs to me then that perhaps getting my little sister drunk and explaining why I screw boys is not the most responsible move on my part.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“And then Jesus says, 'Well, watch this' - "
"Really? Well, watch this?"
"That's biblical language."
"If your Bible is written by Henry Montague.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“I wish I could be better for you." She looks over at me, and I duck my head, shame sinking its teeth in. "I'm older and I know I'm supposed to be... an example, I don't know. At least someone you aren't embarrassed of."

"You do fine."
"I don't"

"You're right, you don't. But you're getting better. And that isn't nothing.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Oh no."
Percy looks sideways at me. "Oh no what?"
I swallow. "I'd first like it to be noted that I am most certainly not a smuggler."
"Monty..." he says, my name sopping with dread.
"And," I continue overtop him, "I'd like you to both remember just how much you adore me and how dull and gloomy your lives would be without me in them."
"What did you do?”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like to be kissed by you. Doubt will knock you from the sky every time.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue