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“Books are more than just a prop to pose around with when you're trying to convince people you've got a bit of substance. Books are an escape route. A refuge. They can be a connection to a stranger, someone you've never met, who writes something that you hadn't considered anyone in the world to have felt but you. When you grow up feeling too big for a place, and you make that kind of connection with a book, it’s like a link; it’s a tunnel to the outside world. A glimmer of something beyond.”
― Chloe Coles, Bookshop Girl

“Nice arse. They have no idea.
It makes my menstrual blood boil to be spoken to like that.”
― Chloe Coles, Bookshop Girl

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“I love you. I want to shout it sometimes. I know you worry about our letters and texts getting read--shades of WWII, haunting us still, I guess, and I'm well aware that nothing's safe on the internet. I worry too. You need to know that when I say it, when I ask you to say it, it's because my lungs feel full of dark water, and seeing it or writing it lets me breathe.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.”
― Hank Green

“You are always a little bit wrong”
― Hank Green

“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”
― Hank Green

“We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines”
― Hank Green

“John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.”
― Hank Green

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'
I was kind of crying by then.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.
'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.
'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.
'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?'
'You cannot.'
'It is my burden, this beautiful face.'
'Not to mention your body.'
'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Headline?" he asked.
"'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said.
"'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said.
"'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Our faces let us look out and know others and let them know us.”
― Robert Hoge, Ugly

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“teasing me about it. And my first response was to hide it all away, bury it.”
― Robert Hoge, Ugly

“Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl

“From a thread of sky
to the warp and weft of your being
You're beautiful, graceful,
like no other;
You're pretty damn good as you are.”
― Imogen Heap

“Xizi she knows that once it's gone then it's gone.”
― Imogen Heap

“Mm what you say Oh that you only meant well, well of course you did Mm what you say Mm that it's all for the best, of course it is Mm what you say That it's just what we need, you decided this Mm what you say What did she say?”
― Imogen Heap

“Music is worthless
Unless it can
Make a complete stranger
Break down and cry”
― Imogen Heap

“Because there's beauty in the breakdown.”
― Imogen Heap

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
― Bob Ross

“There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”
― Bob Ross

“A red eight-sided sign always means:
A) Stop.
B) Go.
C) Danger! Red octogons ahead!”
― Cuthbert Soup, A Whole Nother Story

“Misa: I can't imagine a world without Light!

L: Yes,that would be dark.”
― Tsugumi Ohba

“You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake.
-L (from Death Note)”
― Tsugumi Ohba

“If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note Box Set