Posts tagged "Literature"
You’re beautiful and sad,” I said finally, not looking at him when I did. “Just like your eyes. You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.
Maggie Stiefvater - Shiver
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
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I’m tired of watching you be in love with someone else-someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.
Cassandra Clare - City of Glass
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.
Libba Bray - The Sweet Far Thing
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own.
Julian Barnes - Flaubert’s Parrot
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
Neil Gaiman
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We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.
David Levithan - Boy Meets Boy
I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
John Green - Paper Towns
Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
Sarah Dessen - This Lullaby
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
I didn’t call you because I’m tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I’m tired of watching you be in love with someone else-someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.
Cassandra Clare - City of Glass
Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
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