- "...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. " The Fault In Our Stars
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- "It must require bravery to be honest all the time." Divergent
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- "Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful." Thirteen Reasons Why
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- "There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless." Looking for Alaska
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- "She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. " Nineteen Eighty-Four
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- "It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go." Warm Bodies
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- "I've missed you so much it's felt like missing you is all I am. Like if someone looked inside me, there wouldn't be a skeleton and muscles and blood and nerves. There'd just be memories of you and all the things I've tried to say and ripped out of this notebook, all the things I want to say but I can't because I don't have the words. " Love You, Hate You, Miss You
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- "There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well." A Walk to Remember
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- "I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost... I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing." An Abundance of Katherines
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- "This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again." Paper Towns
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- "I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable." Wintergirls
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- "It had never occurred to me that our lives, which have been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart. " Never Let Me Go
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- "Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well (...) An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense." Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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- "There's something appealing about the idea of losing all your control. Don't you think?" City of Lost Souls
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- "Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading." Never Let Me Go
feb 14 2013 ∞
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