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bram was right: people really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. and maybe it's a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.

becky albertalli, simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda

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we rarely find depth by looking inside of ourselves for it. depth is found in what we can learn from the people and things around us. everyone, everything, has a story... when you learn those stories, you learn experiences that fill you up, that expand your understanding. you add layers to your soul.

kasie west, the fill-in boyfriend

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'fine. no, i'm very frightened.' 'that's good,' said major danby. 'it proves you're still alive.'

joseph heller, catch-22

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it seemed to be such nonsense - inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

virginia woolf, to the lighthouse

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they’d both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognisable.

mary beth keane, ask again, yes

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it has nothing to do with not trusting you. it's to do with what something becomes once you tell it. it's like it's truer. and it's got a life of its own and it rushes out into the world and becomes something you can't control.

patrick ness, the rest of us just live here

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there's some kind of peace that comes with knowing that for every person who is waiting to be found, there's someone out there searching.

julie murphy, dumplin’

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a thousand electric cars could run on how you feel when you know that the person you like likes you back. it feels incredible. like it shouldn't be possible. of all the happy coincidences to ever exist, it's one of the happiest.

emma mills, first & then

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but ana kuya used to tell me that hope was tricky like water. somehow it always found a way in.

leigh bardugo, ruin and rising

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i find that i'm waiting for her to jump in with a story of her own, but she doesn't. the moment gets to breathe.

amy spalding, we used to be friends

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sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

gayle forman, if i stay

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i've had a lot of relationships in my time, platonic or otherwise, but the ones i think about most are those that never quite made it to term. the dashing first date who didn't call you back. the lady on the train you had that amazing conversation with but never saw again. the cool neighbour kid you met the first time a week before he moved away. i guess i'm just haunted by all that potential energy. one moment, the universe presents you with this amazing opportunity for new possibilities...and then...

brian k. vaughan, saga vol. 7

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hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

nick hornby, a long way down

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too much joy, i swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.

ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

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people often said, 'just tell the truth,’ as if it could be contained in one story.

enza gandolfo, the bridge

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she recognised the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.

maggie stiefvater, the raven boys

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being with someone else in any kind of real way takes a certain amount of bravery... to pluck your heart from your chest that way and hand it to someone, unprotected, and wait to see how gently they'll stitch it back in for you.

kelly loy gilbert, picture us in the light