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  • #1
    Ali Benjamin
    “If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #2
    Ali Benjamin
    “Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #3
    Ali Benjamin
    “There’s no single right way to say goodbye to someone you love. But the most important thing is that you keep some part of them inside you.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #4
    Ali Benjamin
    “Saying goodbye is important. It's what allows us to begin to live again.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #5
    Ali Benjamin
    “The staying still was the worst part. The waiting and not-knowing and being afraid: That was worse than anything else that might happen.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #6
    Ali Benjamin
    “Who knows. Maybe everybody's end isn't the day they actually die, but the last time anyone speaks of them. Maybe when you die you don't really disappear, but you fade into a shadow, dark and featureless, only your outlines visible.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #7
    Jennifer Niven
    “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #8
    Jennifer Niven
    “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #9
    Jennifer Niven
    “I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you’re standing next to the right person.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #10
    Jennifer Niven
    “We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #11
    Jennifer Niven
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #12
    Ali Benjamin
    “The staying and not-knowing and being afraid: That was worse than anything else that might have happened.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #13
    Ali Benjamin
    “All the creatures on Earth might be made from stardust. But we are the only ones who get to know it. That's the thing about jellyfish: They'll never understand that. All they can do is drift along, unaware. We humans may be newcomers to this planet. We may be plenty fragile. But we're also the only ones who can decide to change.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #14
    Ali Benjamin
    “Did you know that the light from our nearest star takes four years to reach us? Which means when we see it- when we see any star- we are really seeing what it looks like in the past. All those twinkling lights, every star in the sky, could have burned out years ago- the entire sky could be empty this very minute, and we wouldn't even know it.”
    Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #17
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #18
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #21
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #22
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost



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