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“I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum."

"What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes.

"Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“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

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
― Winston Churchill

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Will you stay with me?" I whisper.
"Always.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe.

silence

and stars

A million suns stretch out beyond me, their light piercing the darkness.”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“I'm glad the choice is made for us. I'm glad I don't have to choose-but more than that, I'm glad I don't have to make someone else choose me.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
― Victoria Holt

“Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares