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  • #1
    Mitch Albom
    “The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don’t think about getting it back, you’ve given it in love.”
    Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

  • #2
    Madeline Miller
    “Achilles was looking at me. “Your hair never quite lies flat, here.” He touched my head, just behind my ear. “I don’t think I’ve ever told you how I like it.”

    My scalp prickled where his fingers had been. “You haven’t,” I said.

    “I should have.” His hand drifted down to the vee at the base of my throat, drew softly across the pulse. “What about this? Have I told you what I think of this, just here?”

    “No,” I said.

    “This surely then.” His hand moved across the muscles of my chest; my skin warmed beneath it. “Have I told you of this?”

    “That you have told me.” My breath caught a little as I spoke.

    “And what of this?” His hand lingered over my hips, drew down the line of my thigh. “Have I spoken of it?”

    “You have.”

    “And this? Surely I would not have forgotten this.” His cat’s smile. “Tell me I did not.”

    “You did not.”

    “There is this too.” His hand was ceaseless now. “I know I have told you of this.”

    I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #3
    Madeline Miller
    “We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #4
    Madeline Miller
    “There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #5
    Genki Kawamura
    “Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end.”
    Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

  • #6
    Edith Sitwell
    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #7
    Andrew Sean Greer
    “Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young."
    "Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won't ever be back.”
    Andrew Sean Greer, Less

  • #8
    Karen Schaler
    “She was smart enough to know that the people who loved Christmas really loved Christmas.”
    Karen Schaler, Christmas Ever After

  • #9
    Karen Schaler
    “every heartache teaches us something so that when the right person does come along, our heart will be ready.”
    Karen Schaler, A Royal Christmas Fairy Tale

  • #10
    Mitch Albom
    “When someone passes, Benjamin, people always ask, ‘Why did God take them?’ A better question would be ‘Why did God give them to us?’ What did we do to deserve their love, their joy, the sweet moments we shared? Didn’t you have such moments with Annabelle?” “Every day,” I rasped. “Those moments are a gift. But their end is not a punishment. I am never cruel, Benjamin. I know you before you are born. I know you after you die. My plans for you are not defined by this world. “Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But the human form is not permanent. It was never meant to be. That gift belongs to the soul. “I know the tears you shed, Benjamin. When people leave this Earth, their loved ones always weep.” She smiled. “But I promise you, those who leave do not.”
    Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat

  • #11
    Mitch Albom
    “This world can be a trying place, Inspector. Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are.”
    Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat

  • #12
    Confucius
    “No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance”
    Confucius, Confucius: In Life and Legend

  • #13
    David Levithan
    “...I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these books are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change. Your reading of them changes--you can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back.”
    David Levithan, Another Day

  • #14
    David Levithan
    “It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me.”
    David Levithan, Another Day

  • #15
    David Levithan
    “Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.”
    David Levithan, Another Day

  • #16
    Cath Crowley
    “It’s like he’s picking up parts of the world and showing them to me, saying, See? It’s beautiful.”
    Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

  • #17
    Jimi Hendrix
    “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    Jimi Hendrix

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #19
    Samantha Sotto Yambao
    “To be everywhere is to be nowhere”
    Samantha Sotto Yambao, The Elsewhere Express

  • #20
    Samantha Sotto Yambao
    “Nothing cut deeper than loss, but finding what you lost hurt too. You couldn’t hold it without grieving for all the years your arms were empty.”
    Samantha Sotto Yambao, The Elsewhere Express

  • #21
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #22
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #23
    Kevin Panetta
    “I would love to have something like that... To be on a team with someone... and to be better together than you ever could be alone.”
    Kevin Panetta, Bloom

  • #24
    Kevin Panetta
    “What was that for?"
    "Nothing. You're just cute and I love you.”
    Kevin Panetta, Bloom

  • #25
    Kevin Panetta
    “Maybe just...Don't try to be what you think you should be. Be what you love.”
    Kevin Panetta, Bloom

  • #26
    Kevin Panetta
    “You were so happy back then... but i feel like you lost that somewhere along the way.”
    Kevin Panetta, Bloom

  • #27
    Grace Lin
    “The secret to peace is forgiveness.”
    Grace Lin, Starry River of the Sky



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