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“Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
"Not today, Mr. Weasley."
Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“...her dearest friends are characters in books.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“They seem close, the stars, but they’re far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Guards are of no use in a library.
Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“She forgot about time as she drifted between pieces, voicing the unspeakable, opening old wounds, playing and playing as the sound forgave and saved her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond.”
“If only we had a captain here.”
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

“Are you sick now?"
"No."
"Then what's wrong?"
"I don't like people."
"Do you think that's right?"
"Probably not.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“You’re only a first year!” Tina cried. “And you’re already getting death threats! Do you have any idea how lucky you are?”
― Stuart Gibbs, Spy Camp

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I saw you break down. I know you’re not a monster, Tristan. I just don’t understand why you pretend to be.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Meeting you was a disaster.”

She raised a brow. “Thank you.”

Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful every day for that disaster. I needed a cataclysm to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.”

“I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”

“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“The women are the strong ones, truly.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Some men think because they're afraid to do.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I love you more than I hate everything else.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen - because you love each other.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“That's what love is, Georgie. Accidental damage protection.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Nothing good is easy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“When were you smiling? No one in your family smiles. You're a dynasty of wasted dimples.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Neal, I want to ruin you for everyone.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I don't like you, Park," she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. "I..." - her voice nearly disappeared - "think I live for you."
He closed his eyes and pressed his head back into his pillow.
"I don't think I even breathe when we're not together," she whispered. "Which means, when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?"
He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park