- Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written in a while, but I've been trying hard not to be a loser.
(The perks of being A Wallflower)
- “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
- “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.
“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.
“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
- “It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant”
- “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
- “I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
- “There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
- "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
- “Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
- “I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”
- “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
- “Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”
- “But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.”
- “You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia”
