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“Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics

“Life is complicated sometimes to be sure, but there are other times...when life is just as sweet, and good, and simple as it seems.”
― Sarah Weeks, As Simple as It Seems

“I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know.”
― Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
― richard siken

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“i am nothing but a mosaic of the people i’ve met & the things they’ve carried.”
― Samuel Miller, A Lite Too Bright

“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own