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#1

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#2

“To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.”
― Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way

tags: loss, love, share, support

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#3

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: inspirational-life

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#4

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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#5

“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

tags: zach

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#6

“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

tags: love

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#7

“Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

tags: inspirational, life, love, young-adult

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#8

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

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#9

“Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

tags: books, reading

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#10

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

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#11

“I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

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#12

“We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

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#13

“What colour are your eyes?
Olly (O): blue
Madeline (M): Be more specific please
O: jesus. girls. ocean blue
M: Atlantic or Pacific
O: atlantic. What colour are yours?
M: Chocolate brown.
O: More specific please
M: 75% cacao butter, dark chocolate brown
O: hehe. nice”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

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#14

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135554 likes

#15

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

tags: books, humor

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#16

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#17

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127171 likes

#18

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114387 likes

#19

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

tags: humor, memoir, young_adult

867 likes

#20

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#21

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#22

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#23

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: love

11874 likes

#24

“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

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

10840 likes

#25

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: honesty

8051 likes

#26

“In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

tags: love, madeline, olly

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#27

“Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary)”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

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#28

“I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

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#29

“he
opened me up
like a book
& poured the
poetry
back into
me.

-my personal pen and paper”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

tags: poetry-quotes

111 likes

#30

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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