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The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

Lauren DeStefano

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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

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Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

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"You're insane, you know that?" he says.
"It's the only thing keeping me afloat," I say.

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Craziness & Weirdness

"I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you."

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Love declerations

I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.

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Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

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Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

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Hope

There's a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

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When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

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Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

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Stars

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

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"Momentum," She repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run."

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Flying

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other.

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I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.

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Fate, I think, is a thief.

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Fate & Destiny

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

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Prisons

So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

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We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions.

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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

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Silence

Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

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Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.

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Rhine

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

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Death

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

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Darkness

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

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Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

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The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

Anger

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

Cornelia Funke in Reckless

Darkness Night

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Pain

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Rainbows Rain

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