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“Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”
― Todd Strasser

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars