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“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow," he said.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Race you to the road?" I said.
"You are so going to lose." She (Annabeth) took off down Half-Blood Hill and I sprinted after her.
For once, I didn't look back.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“There's nothing in the world a good book can't cure”
― Ashley Schumacher, Amelia Unabridged

“Everything is silly, dear. Life is too brief to be anything else.”
― Ashley Schumacher, Amelia Unabridged

“I like to imagine my used books as little soldiers that have gone off to serve their duty elsewhere before coming into my hands. Books are something to be stepped inside of, to be occupied and lived in.”
― Ashley Schumacher, Amelia Unabridged

“I clung to books and words because, unlike people, they’d never abandon me.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

“Silence has a voice of its own.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

“Some were desperate to remember and others were desperate to forget.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

“He doesn’t carry the disease of fear.” “It’s easy to be fearless when you have nothing to lose,” says Julia.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

“The sweet girl in Madrid... It probably wouldn't have worked. The divide was too wide. Memories are hungry, tesoro. You musn't feed them. I'd hate to think that a teenage fling might leave you alone for the rest of your life.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

“Maybe the reason I can't write about fictional life is because I haven't actually lived.”
― Christina Lauren, Roomies

“I’ve had friends like that,” he says, “the ones you outgrow but keep anyway.”
― Christina Lauren, Roomies

“When I get angry, I cry. It's like the two wires cross in my emotional brain.”
― Christina Lauren, Roomies

“But I knew I wanted to be with him, and he wanted to be with me, too, and also knew what he wanted to do with his life. So, we compromised. He took the job in Des Moines, and it was my responsibility to get a job that would make enough money for what we needed, and that I enjoyed enough. I didn’t have to love it, but it didn’t matter whether I did, either, because I had him. I kept trying new things, too, and eventually discovered pottery. It’s fun, of course, but the most important part is that I didn’t feel like my job had to be my everything.”

This is what I have to keep reminding myself. Sometimes a job can just be a job. We aren’t all going to win the rat race. “I know.”
― Christina Lauren, Roomies

“She sees herself as a supporting character, even in her own life story.”
― Christina Lauren, Roomies

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

“I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“He didn't laugh when he thought something was funny--he laughed when he was happy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline