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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

Zelda Fitzgerald

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love.”

William Shakespeare,

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”

Nicholas Sparks

“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?""Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."...I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand.""I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said."And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”

Rick Riordan,

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

Chuck Palahniuk,

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

Nicole Krauss,

“Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”

Suzanne Collins,

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

John Lennon

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

Carl Gustav Jung

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

Chuck Palahniuk,

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

Stephen King,

“I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

Neil Gaiman,

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

Rick Riordan,

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

Sarah J. Maas,

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

Brigham Young

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

Maya Angelou

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

Haruki Murakami,

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Robert Fulghum,

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

E.B. White

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”

Théophile Gautier

“You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!""What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”

J.K. Rowling,

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”

Robert Frost,

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”

Nicholas Sparks,

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

Edgar Allen Poe

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

Billy Sunday,

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

Mark Twain

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

Arundhati Roy,

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

J.M. Barrie,

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Rumi

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

Philip K. Dick,

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

Stephen King

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

Roy T. Bennett,

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

A.A. Milne,

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

William Shakespeare,

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”

Rumi

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

May Sarton

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

Elizabeth Gilbert,

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

Rainbow Rowell,

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

L.M. Montgomery

“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

J.K. Rowling,

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

Oscar Wilde

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

Jane Austen,

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

Cassandra Clare,

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word."What a stupid lamb," I sighed."What a sick, masochistic lion.”

Stephenie Meyer,

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

Voltaire

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

Dr. Seuss,

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

Cassandra Clare,

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”

John Green,

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when it's morning again, they'll wash awayHere it's safe, here it's warmHere the daisies guard you from every harmHere your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them trueHere is the place where I love you.”

Suzanne Collins,

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

Sir Francis Bacon

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Mary Oliver

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”

Sarah J. Maas,

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

Charles Bukowski

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

George Carlin

“Never laugh at live dragons.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

J.K. Rowling,

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Aristotle,

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”

John Green,

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”

Charlaine Harris

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”

C.S. Lewis

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

Shana Abe

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

Sylvia Plath,

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

John Lennon

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”

Lemony Snicket

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”

Evans G. Valens,

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

Oscar Wilde

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

Paulo Coelho,

“I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”

Veronica Roth,

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”

Dave Matthews Band

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

Jane Austen,

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.”

Emily Dickinson

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

Albert Einstein

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

Albert Einstein

“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace."It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon."I knew we should have left you a rat.”

Cassandra Clare,

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”

C. JoyBell C.

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

Edgar Allan Poe,

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

Sylvia Plath,

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”

Stephen Hawking

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”

Charles Bukowski

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

St. Augustine

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”

Mae West

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”

Pat Conroy,

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

Phyllis Diller

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Mark Twain

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

Albert Einstein

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

Jack Kerouac,

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

Søren Kierkegaard

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

J.R.R. Tolkien,

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

haruki murakami,

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

Laurence J. Peter

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

Oscar Wilde

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”

Cassandra Clare,

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

Albert Einstein

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

Jerome K. Jerome

“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”

Roy T. Bennett,

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

John Lennon

“If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.”

Chad Sugg,

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

John Green,