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#1

“I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: insomnia

828 likes

#2

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

tags: paper-towns

11023 likes

#3

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: an-abundance-of-katherines, joh-green, nerdfighters

4041 likes

#4

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

2429 likes

#5

“The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

312 likes

#6

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

36851 likes

#7

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: desires, fun, want

2332 likes

#8

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

tags: fear, friendship, tired, trust

2805 likes

#9

“What's the plan?" she asked.
He grinned. "My plan is to do things that make you want to hang out with me again tomorrow. What's your plan?"
"I'm going to try not to make an ass of myself."
He grinned. "So we're all set.”
― rainbow rowell, Fangirl

437 likes

#10

“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

tags: coyne, georgia, judas, lyre, music

79 likes

#11

“Secrets are the prisons we make for ourselves.”
― Joe Hill, Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega

20 likes

#12

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: inspirational, magic, reminding, sacrifice

877 likes

#13

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

738 likes

#14

“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: neil-gaiman, the-graveyard-book

2236 likes

#15

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Behemoth

tags: volger

42 likes

#16

“Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

96 likes

#17

“If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.”
― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue

tags: books, funny, ironic, rosemary-and-rue, seanan-mcguire

134 likes

#18

“I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation

tags: cats, tybalt

248 likes

#19

“High School Is Life’s Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

27 likes

#20

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: inspirational

1243 likes

#21

“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

412 likes

#22

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

tags: life

7218 likes

#23

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

2609 likes

#24

“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

tags: abilities

50675 likes

#25

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

19574 likes

#26

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: falling-apart, giving-in

11781 likes

#27

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

9389 likes

#28

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

6515 likes

#29

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2985 likes

#30

“...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

tags: humor

293 likes

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